On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 01:52:49PM -0500, Dan Papasian wrote:
> It isn't a bad thing. But the UNIX way always has been put the
> software that is part of the base OS's into /usr, and software installed
> over it into /usr/local.
>
> Considering with Debian you have a hodepodge of packages from different
> vendors, the logical solution to keep with unix tradition would be have
> everything installed with the /minimal/ install of debian go into /usr
> and everything else go into /usr/local
>
I've been following this thread only loosely, not my comments
may not add that much; but that said, Dan is right insofar as
my 22 years of Unix go. Even from the beginnings of V6 and V7,
the hierarchy was fairly well defined to
/usr/* and /etc/*
and
/usr/local/*
I really don't see anything ``wrong'' with a more haphazard
tree. There are valid args to either way. Also, it's similar
to the old debate about how many angels can dance on the head
of a pin. (42:)
I see three things to be gained by a DebianBSD flavor:
(1) It would bring hundreds to countless thousands of new
people to a somewhat more stable kernel.
(2) It might bring the Linux model closer to the Berkeley--
and vice versa. (Just as there is great strength in
mixing diverse gene-pools, there is strength gained when
memes are mixed.)
(3) It might encourage more ports of Linux drivers for all
the DOS toys to BSD.
that's my few penny's worth!
gary
> -Dan Papasian
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> From: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> :That's an odd statement to make, given that Debian has a pretty good
> :track record of supporting this "bundled software". [Admittedly, this
> :support is often in conjunction with the authors of that software --
> :but I don't see that that's a bad thing.]
>
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