IBM's ThinkPad-Linux support project being dropped

[dep]

begin  Michael Hipp's  quote:

| Ok, perhaps. But how hard is it to say "pick one, any one, and go
| with it". It's a Jihad because people make it so, not because of
| some compelling technical reason.

but, you see, there *is* a compelling technical reason. putting it in 
/usr makes life very difficult for the non-weenies who compile their 
own stuff rather than lap up whatever the distribution packages. this 
is because backing up the previous version is extremely difficult, 
and because desktops invlove multiple required packages, if the 
second or third package compile fails though "make install" was done 
on the first one, a broken desktop is the result. which is to say 
that putting desktops in /usr was done for the convenience of red hat 
software, and for no other reason.
-- 
dep

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