On 08/04/98 at 08:49 PM, George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Debian has things like pre-depends that Red Hat lacks the last time I >looked. Also, Debian tends to "do the right thing" more often with >regard to such things that should got into /etc or /usr/X11R6/lib where >Red Hat and other still put them in /usr/lib. Debian is actually the >correct way but sometimes seems unwilling to compromise over the short >term for the sake of compatability over the long term.
This looks like you are saying Debian follows the unix standard way of doing things and the other verisons don't. So, why change from the correct way to a wrong way? Doesn't the wrong way make porting from Unix to Red Had harder than Unix to Debian? If for know other reason than it makes the developer learn two (2) file structures. BTW, thanks for the illustrated differances between RH and Debian file structure. I thought I was remembering file locations wrong when I tried RH; file locations made no sense to me at all. I may have a twisted mind, but my old DOS drives had a structure very similar to Debian. Then again, anything is better than a registry! George R -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
