On Mar 4, Scott Stanley wrote: > On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Dominik Kubla wrote: > It seems like anyone who is running their system with /usr as a CD-ROM is > probably not looking for options or configurability. They just want a > basic system to play with and try before stepping all the way into an > installation. It would seem like the creater of the CD should just place > a ``basic'' system on the CD without alot of different flavors of > commands.
But you are leaving out one very important situation: NFS. There are a good number of people that have /usr mounted over NFS in read-only mode. Most people don't have /etc mounted over NFS. This allows each individual machine to be configured as the admin likes it, without messing up configurations on other machines. Nifty, eh? > The /etc/alternatives seems like it just adds one more file to the > configuration which might increase the confusion of someone trying to > learn the system. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
