On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:10:24PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
> Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >No, it's not Theo who lost touch with reality here. It's a fine goal for an
> >operating system to have a consistent file system layout.
>
> That's a good goal, but, unfortunately, it's not scalable. Most of us
> don't have the luxury of only working with a single OS distribution.
/usr/local/bin is nearly standard.
djb's /package is a really nice way and a really good idea IMHO, the real
problem: it's unlikely that this standard will be widely adopted.
Unfortunately.
> If each of them has its own internally consistent layout, we still
> have multiple inconsistent layouts to deal with.
Enfocing djb's ideas means inconsistence between the different programs on a
sigle box. Do you have only djbware, not a single program within /usr/bin,
/bin or whatever on a box? surely not.
> DJB's goal is make qmail/djndns/whatever consistent on *all*
> platforms.
Opposed to make all programs on one given platform consistent.
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