Dirk Eddelbuettel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 15 November 1995 08:46: > Carlos> Keeping a distribution intact is an illusion. I've just installed > Carlos> it and have already changed many things. A distribution is only > Carlos> good for a start, particularly the base part. The packages are more > Carlos> "upgradable" from the distribution. > >Why don't you use the /usr/local part of the filesystem?
I do when possible. >Works perfectly well for local additions to TeX (/usr/local/lib/texmf/), >emacs (/usr/local/lib/emacs/site-lisp), info files (/usr/local/info with >referenes from /usr/info/dir), local configuration scripts in /usr/local/etc, >local src, includes, libs and so on. > >Some changes have of course to be made to files in /etc or /boot --- but >that's why Debian packages normally declare these files as conffiles so that >they are not inadvertedly overwritten during upgrades the relevant package. There are things that I want in the root partition. For example, I want zsh as my login shell for root, and I want it in /bin in case /usr is not accessible. Also, I want color-ls, and in /bin for the same reason. Further, I want e2fsprogs-0.5c.tar.gz, which makes a mess in /sbin, etc. I also want cp to be able to copy sparse files without filling the disk with zeroes, so I'll patch it and recompile. Carlos
