On Thursday 14 August 2008 22:13:58 Bryan J. Smith wrote: > As far as everything else, I think it's moot to argue. > Testing on paths in Linux is like testing dates for > history. It doesn't test anything about context and > application. > > The objectives should remove the path contexts, or at > least note that only xdm is under /etc/X11/xdm for > XFree86/Xorg. Questions should focus elsewhere.
To expand a little on what yourself and Etienne are saying, I see 4 possibilities to deal with this problem of paths: 1. Use upstream defaults 2. Use LFS 3. Use whatever the mythical "market leader" is doing 4. Keep in mind that "it goes wherever I decided it should go when I ran ./configure" is always a 100% correct answer than cannot be argued against All 4 are problematic. #2 is incomplete and was only ever a guidelines as no- one uses all of it. #3 begs the questions "who is that?" and "which version?". #4 although correct is utterly useless as an exam standard. Which leaves #1. This looks useable, but isn't. We don't expect LPI alumni to read every makefile so they don't know the answer. There is a distro that is a very good reference standard and that is Slackware. But I'll bet the numbers of LPI candidates using it are very small indeed, so the idea is not practical. Which leaves only one reasonable route left - remove all reference to paths if there is even the slightest variety. Some things are virtually cast in stone - /etc/passwd for example - but most are not. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
