hi ya rich...
yes....
i mean, redhat, suse, slackware, caldera, debian, corel,
mandrake....haven;t poked around at freebsd, bsd386, netbsd yet
think now that the marketing people and venture$$$ and
institutional investors have their hands on linux....
we stand little chance to change them....to support "file hierarchy
standards"...
have fun linuxing
alvin
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Rich McClellan writes:
> > On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > and if we use debian methodology.... /etc/autofs/* files
> >
> > I don't know about this method, as I use Red Hat. It's probably
> > best for Linux if you stay away from doing it the way a specific
> > distro does things(*). I don't like the way the various distros are
> > adding Brand Distinction by reorganizing where files go and think it
> > only lends to Linux Extinction. So I cast my (worthless) ballot in
> > favor of not going for new subdirs and stuff.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> The mere fact that different distros do some basic things differently
> suggests to me that:
> - most if not all distros haven't gotten it right yet
> - (possibly) LSB still has more work to do.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard....
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