{"issue":{"title":"Create \"latest\" symlink for the latest keg in /usr/local/Cellar/","created_at":"2011-12-23T04:15:10Z","milestone":null,"user":{"id":153219,"login":"adammw","url":"https://api.github.com/users/adammw","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e0036a0ccd84e99d52efbce8dcf029a4?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","gravatar_id":"e0036a0ccd84e99d52efbce8dcf029a4"},"labels":[],"updated_at":"2011-12-23T04:15:10Z","state":"open","id":2644464,"closed_at":null,"html_url":"https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/9241","pull_request":{"patch_url":null,"html_url":null,"diff_url":null},"body":"For example, if version 0.1 is installed, link /usr/local/Cellar/foo/latest to /usr/local/Cellar/foo/0.1, then when it is upgraded to a newer version, latest is then linked to the newer version.\r\nThe rationale for this is for keg-only packages or packages (such as coreutils's aliases) that include scripts. Using a path to \"latest\" helps to remove the pain of updating all paths pointing to a particular version manually.","number":9241,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mxcl/homebrew/issues/9241","comments":0,"assignee":null},"action":"opened"}