On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> I have been meaning to ask this for some time.
>
> If you go to ftp.rpmfind.net, then switch to linux/Mandrake/6.1, you
> find yourself facing two directories, the Mandrake directory that hold
> all of Mandrake rpms, etc. and the Red Hat directory that seems to hold
> all of Red Hat's rpms, etc. I notice that all of the "Red Hat" rpms in
> this Mandrake/6.1/RedHat directory are optimized 586 files. Could
> someone please explain to me what is the difference between the
> Mandrake/6.1/Red Hat 586 rpms and the Mandrake/6.1/Mandrake 586 rpms?
> What is Red Hat, optimized or not, doing in Mandrake, anyway?
>
> Very, very curious.
If you look closer, you'll see the RedHat directory is symlinked to the
Mandrake directory. I think it's for backwards compatability with RedHat.
The Mandrake CD's come the same way.
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