[Pan-users] Re: Old Pan: Cannot see newsgroup 'read' items before March 11

[Duncan]

Maurice <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Wed, 20 Aug
2008 12:28:54 +0100:

>   I shall try renaming the old Pan binary to 'oldpan' and adjusting the
> desktop icon call to match.
> 
>   Then presumably I can install/update new Pan and still be able to use
>   'old'.
>  (Won't I?!)

I did that here (naming my old copy pan.14), so I could keep it for 
reference purposes for helping people.

Keep in mind that a few of the dependencies are different, however.  
New-pan doesn't require gnet, for instance, while old-pan did.  
Especially if gnet isn't depended on by anything else, make sure it 
doesn't disappear when you upgrade...  (On Gentoo, unmerging no-longer-
required packages is a separate operation, one which I always run a 
--pretend before doing it live.  I simply told it I wanted to keep gnet 
and it doesn't try to remove it now.)

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