On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 02:24:35PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > > 1) Non-FHS ports have problems concering the directories where things > > get installed (they may not match linux directories). Darwin, FreeBSD, > > Hurd and many others fall into this category. > > Could someone explain to me how a non-FHS 'Debian Port' is something we > should even be thinking about doing? Is it really Debian anymore? It > certianly isn't just a port.. > > I wasn't aware the hurd Debian folks were actually going to do that within > Debian..
FHS is mostly Linux biased. Hurd doesn't follow all of these conventions, so there are some discrepancies (in glibc there are one or two, IIRC). > > Problem created: These ports will probably never exist for Debian. > > Porters will find it too difficult, or will come up with severely > > As I understand it we have to do it for ia64.. The ia64 box intel demo'd > at OLS had a 64 bit userland and 32 bit libraries to support legacy apps, > they were running a 32 bit acroreader for instance. > > Support for other OS's is a good reason I think, but then again - they are > non-free.. Not neccessarily. Darwin is free, even if it has a proprietary system built on top of it. But by far, a lot of the directories are different, and some people want to install things in non-system directories (like /usr/local) just to keep from crapping up the native system. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
