RedHat, Fedora future?

Austin Isler a_c_isler at verizon.net
Thu Feb 5 23:48:25 UTC 2004


M.Hockings wrote:

> Bryan Encina wrote:
>
>>> Personally I find this all very interesting as before reading this
>>> thread I didn't even know that there was a spec about where to put
>>> things!  Here are a few randomish thoughts.
>>>
>>> On Windows you will see the  typical installer ask to put a new program
>>> at "C:\Program Files\some-vendor-name" but you can change this to
>>> "e:\where-ever-ya-want" and the program will still install.  However it
>>> now won't match the documentation -- does this confuse users too?  
>>> (ans:
>>> yes, even though they chose to put it there)
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I don't claim to be an expert on this (or anything at all), but isn't 
>> the
>> reason that Windows can get away with doing this and still having
>> plugins/addons install correctly because of the registry, one central 
>> place
>> where system wide settings can be looked up?  AFAIK there isn't anything
>> like that in linux (not saying there should be, either) so that's 
>> possibly
>> why installing into non-standard places can make installing/upgrading 
>> addons
>> a little harder.
>>
>
> Yes, this is true, but I have also had to help resolve problems with 
> customers where the registry was corrupt or out of sync due to system 
> failure, user editing,  deletion of files without uninstall, etc.  
> Thousands of entries if you use an msi installer.   There is a lot to 
> be said for a *simple* ordered way of putting things in the file 
> system (IMHO).  That is, I would presume that if a vendor supplies an 
> RPM install then the same vendor should know how to update or remove 
> the install as well.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
Why drop the the RHL line if you just turn around and have products like 
RHPW. RHL became a familiar line, and I think it would have just been 
better to implement the features of RHPW into RHL and package it as 
that. (IMO)

Austin





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