2009/2/2 André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com>: > Just a few points though in defense of the packagers, a much-criticised > group (to which I do not belong by the way) :
NO critique of their work. They have different drivers. > - like the Tomcat people, they are working for free, in a spirit of helping > other people > - what they do allows one to install a package (any package), mainly by > typing "xxxx install package-name", and generally it works right out of the > box. ? There I'll beg to differ. Since they dont' provide any documentation, I have to fall back on TC docs... which are inapplicable (and sufficiently complex in their own right). The main issue is a 'standard' layout for a filesystem, which Linux has been battling for years. Roll on the day. > - they try to follow the usual conventions of the platform for which they do > it, which does not necessarily please the original package developers, but > pleases the sysadmins no end, because one then finds the same kind of files > in the same usual places (configuration files, logfiles, start/stop scripts > etc..), without having to scour the whole system to find them > - they also try to respect the filesystem conventions as to where one puts > things that get written to or not, permissions and so on > - they do not generally "break things", they just sometimes tend to spread > out the files and use a lot of links, which is a bit confusing at first. Were it documented, it may help. None found. > > About the missing pieces, I'm sure that the Tomcat Manager and the Tomcat > doc are also available, in their own Fedora package. > The packagers split them off, because they thought (probably justifiably) > that many people installing Tomcat on real-world servers did not necessarily > need them. I'll look. Thanks. Not much help to a newbie. Tks. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
