gentoo - wow!! - progress

[Net Llama!]

Collins wrote:
> 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.

What does Redhat have to do with this?  Redhat isn't following the FHS 
any more than your beloved gentoo.



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