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feat(templates/install): warning for distro package managers

Open lambda-fairy opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

It's implied by the rest of the docs, but I think it's worth making it explicit, given how often the problem appears on Zulip.

lambda-fairy avatar Sep 25 '23 05:09 lambda-fairy

Maybe you should add that at the time of writing lean 4 is making new releases every few weeks, so it's highly likely that the version in your package manager is already out of date?

kbuzzard avatar Sep 27 '23 06:09 kbuzzard

Thanks @kbuzzard, added.

Also added a note about elan handling multiple versions. (I hedged my point with "most" to placate the Nix fans)

lambda-fairy avatar Sep 27 '23 10:09 lambda-fairy

I don't understand the placement of those paragraph, and I don't understand the last sentence.

And I'm skeptical about the general idea. People who arrive at those web page already decided they were not using their package managers.

PatrickMassot avatar Sep 28 '23 02:09 PatrickMassot

I agree with Patrick that I don't understand the last sentence.

Otoh, I don't think it hurts to add this warning: I often skim install pages in combination with installation via distro package managers.

jcommelin avatar Oct 19 '23 07:10 jcommelin

I am closing this since it did not converge.

PatrickMassot avatar Jul 18 '24 15:07 PatrickMassot