I wrote:
> > How do you download the whole binary tree? In RH I simply downloaded the
> > iso-images and then applied all subsequent upgrades. Debian seems to
> > function differently; when I browsed an ftp mirror, I couldn't find the
> > actual packages.
Tzafrir Cohen:
> (ISO images are of the installation, not of system)
Does that mean that I can only install packages while connected to the net?
> Do you have /tmp on a different partition?
Actually, no. I symlinked /tmp and /usr/tmp to /var/tmp which is on a
different partition.
> /opt and /usr/local are the same: not part of the "formal" system, and
> intended for extra packages. Although debian places some a few config
> files in /usr/local
But quite some flamers are upset at RH for putting everything in /usr/bin. In
fact, a few months ago mosfet went beserk complaining about `ls /usr/bin|wc
-l` returing a number greater than 1500. So I wondered whether debian guys
were doing it differently.
Arie Folger
--
It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man
who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as
he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable.
-- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics
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