Sam wrote:
> On 23 Dec 1998, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
>
> > In fact, forks are traditional UNIX vendor behavior. I described how
> > Debian had screwed up cross-platform compatibility by changing the qmail
> > file locations. He dismissed my concerns, and said that he needed to
> > change the paths too.
>
> I don't recall many questions on the list from Debian users and how
> confused they are with the different location of all the files.
>
> As far as vendor's traditional packaging, they are not forks, but
> site-specific customizations. If they were real forks, the vendor
> would have its own source tree that they work on independently.
>
> Both Debian and Redhat do not maintain any separate code trees. The
> source code they shipped with their OS is the original package source
> code. And any OS-specific patches are provided separately.
Although they turn the sources into something funny -- SRPMS as far as I
know. Don't know the exact detail of this. I do know I like to have my
packages in /usr/local/pkgname, like Samba, Squid, Postgres, Apache etc... do.
I don't like the RH way of putting everything into /usr. Speaking about that,
forgive the na�ve question Dan, but what's so special about /var?
Cheers,
Juan
