Re: The Kernel

[George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org>]

On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Rick Jones wrote:

> That would make dists non-standard.  If (i.e.) Borland wants to port to
> Linux have their program work from the /opt tree (for example) and all
> distro's don't use that tree then the program is broken.  I remember
> back in the beginning when there were so many tree structures that you
> were hard pressed to find a tarball that would compile without having to
> change the paths in the Makefile.

Well, look at the init sctructure of debian ... kind of looks like Solaris
... /etc/initd /etc/rc1.d /etc/rc2.d .... now look at RedHat ...
/etc/rc.d/rc1.d  

Kind of makes it hard for a package to install when it cant put things
where it needs to go to start itself.


George Bonser 
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