On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Thanks for the advice. I must say I prefer the original Unix > approach of putting all the sources under /usr/src, with the > kernel going into /usr/src/sys.
Linux is not UNIX :-) > One of the reasons I like to have the unpacked sources for everything > on my disk is that the with open source the documentation is so often > inadequate. (of course it is not unheard of for commercial products to > have woeful documentation as well - which is why there are so many > third party books on Windows...) Documentation for a package is often under /usr/share/docs/<packagename> > Plus, of course, there is the added bonus that if the feature you > are looking for isn't there, you can add it in. Or if the way > something works isn't obvious from the source, it is easy to temporarily > add the odd diagnostic. You could write your own ebuild for this kind of stuff. -- -- [email protected] mailing list
