gentoo - wow!! - progress

[Collins]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 18:27:25 -0500 Michael Hipp <mhipp at redmule.com>
wrote:
> On Saturday 29 June 2002 06:15 pm, dep wrote:
> > begin  Collins's  quote:
> > | Much material here for any number of flame wars.  I only have
> > one| question.  How does a system that "slavishly adheres to the
> > fhs"| handle instalation of new versions (or, God forbid, parallel
> > | versions) of a monstrosity like kde?
> >
> > it puts them on /opt/[dirname], as god intended.
> 
> Is there somewhere a Cliff Notes version of FHS or maybe 'FHS for
> Stoopid People' that is a quick read to get the gist?
> 
> I tried reading the real thing and managed to learn precisely
> nothing.
> 

The more I learn about this beast, the more I believe, dep perhaps an
execption, that the FHS is for Stoopid People.

I can only thank my lucky stars that I have stumbled on a distro that
is not slavishly complient to the FHS, read: the Redhat approach. 
There's more religion to this than RMS could conjure up.

I'm sorry now that I opened up this can of worms.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla