Benjamin Scott wrote:
>
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Mark Komarinski wrote:
> > But to spend my time searching for the documentation for packages between
> > /usr/doc or /usr/share/doc (as an example) is not a worthwhile use of my
> > time.
>
> Indeed, that is a reason to stick with a particular distribution.
Absolutely not. Just like everything else in the world, use what
works best.
> Remember, folks: Linux is fairly nebulous concept. If you go out and find
> all the original packages, all you have is a bunch of tarballs containing
> unconfigured sources. They do not have any particular place in the filesystem
> they want to live. The distributor has to make that choice.
The purists among us (not I) would say that "Linux" is just the kernel.
That being said, how many of you have tried installing an RPM intended for
SuSE on a Red Hat system? RPM is used on a lot of distributions and
the location of their files varies greatly. Debian itself is forking,
for lack of a better word, with Progeny being released, and Storm maybe
living.
There should at least be some sort of compatability within "like" distributions,
and extending this to all major distros should be helpful.
> > Writing documentation about using DocBook, for example, is getting harder since
> > each distribution puts their DTDs in different locations.
>
> I take it that DocBook/SGML/whatever does not support the concept of a
> locally-defined search path? Bummer.
DTDs do, but the DSSSL (needed to do the processing) don't. I use
documentation as an example. I can do into more detail, such as how
RH uses /etc/rc.d/init.d, while Debian uses /etc/init.d, and Debian uses
runlevel 2 for firing up gdm/xdm while Red Hat uses 5. The differences
are enough to make me mutter when working on different systems.
> Still, that seems to follow suit, if you think about it. SGML is basically
> a kind of programming language. It sounds like even documentation sources are
> going to start needing GNU autoconf to "compile" correctly.
I can understand documentation though ;)
> --
> Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Ditto. Add "living or dead".
-Mark
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