Re: The Kernel

[Rick Jones <rickya@siservices.net>]

George Bonser wrote:
> 
> 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.

That is due to Debian using the sysV standard and RH trying to be
different.