On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > 1) Non-FHS ports have problems concering the directories where things > get installed (they may not match linux directories). Darwin, FreeBSD, > Hurd and many others fall into this category.
Could someone explain to me how a non-FHS 'Debian Port' is something we should even be thinking about doing? Is it really Debian anymore? It certianly isn't just a port.. I wasn't aware the hurd Debian folks were actually going to do that within Debian.. > Problem created: These ports will probably never exist for Debian. > Porters will find it too difficult, or will come up with severely As I understand it we have to do it for ia64.. The ia64 box intel demo'd at OLS had a 64 bit userland and 32 bit libraries to support legacy apps, they were running a 32 bit acroreader for instance. Support for other OS's is a good reason I think, but then again - they are non-free.. Jason
