On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> I strongly disagree. We have directories for a reason: clutter
> reduction. When I heard that Debian puts its automount maps in
> /etc/autofs, they got one gold star from me. When I see the amount of
> crap that goes into /etc for a basic RedHat install, I'm not
> impressed.
Whether or not you're impressed is irrelevant to my basic point: the
plethora of new, distro specific directories does not help Linux as a
whole, but harms it.
> And when you say "the various distros...", are you sure you aren't
> really saying "they're doing it differently from RedHat"? Despite what
> many people may think, RedHat is not the standard.
Quite sure. In fact I think Red Hat is an offender: Look where they have
placed the samba and apache files. Furthemore, I qualified my remarks by
saying I didn't want to start a distro Jihad, and I still don't, but it's
vital to Linux's near term adoption that the various distros do the
"basic" things the same way and follow the precedents set by the more
mature Unix OSes.
Rich
