Mozilla 1.6 released. RPMs soon?
Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Fri Jan 16 16:33:29 UTC 2004
At 10:11 1/16/2004, you wrote:
>RH and Fedora don't use the same directories as the tarball's and thus you
>can end up with conflicts if you don't remove traces of the other
>versions. Configuration files can also be in different directories. [...]
>
>This should be corrected in the future so if there are changes to an
>application that will benefit a user and there is no official upgrade
>planned then getting the tarball would be an option. Use the same
>directories as the tarball/official release.
Red Hat has strived for years to create and follow a standard for file
locations, and is I believe also working with the LSB (?) standard for
Linux filesystem locations. That standardization is one of the things that
has helped it create a logical, consistent OS for most applications... "the
good of the many," in fact.
Putting anything wherever it pleases without regard for those nearly 10
years of standardization would be a HUGE loss, all for the (negligible and
questionable, IMHO) benefit of letting app developers put files wherever
they please. Is that really better than slowly working to standardize all
Unices into filesystem locations, so that you can always find all config
files in /etc, for example?
I think not.
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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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