Seems to me that symlinks provided by a distribution would be usefull as a transitional measure only. Until applications eventually move over to the new /dev locations. So...
Part of any application's perogerative is to deal with the platform(s) it runs on. Wine makes some special allowances for Solaris, and MacOS... so... there a theme here? --tim On 4/19/06, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 20:00, Mike McCormack wrote: > > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > dont really know who you're talking about when you say "you guys" ... > > > sounds like you're trying to say this situation is my fault when really i > > > nor Gentoo has had anything to do with /dev naming schemas > > > > Yes, it is Gentoo's fault. Your distro is missing a symlink, and > > instead of just adding the it, you waste everybody else's time running > > around "fixing" their projects. > > i can see this thread is clearly going to go nowhere so we might as well just > kill it now before we waste each other's time trying to "educate" why the > other person is wrong > -mike > > >
