On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:42:26PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, 19 May 2002, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > Note the difference between 'GNU/Hurd' and 'Debian GNU/Hurd'. > > > > I see totally no reason why those have to be incompatible. > > ... and I see totally no reason why those have to be compatible, from a > filesystem point of view. And IIUC, lot of Debian Developers feel so with > me. I see 2 reasons: 1) GNU and BSD are compatible with each other, GNU/Linux is the one who isn't. 2) It will cause that you can't run normal *BSD binaries on Debian *BSD. 3) Having libexec isn't incompatible with the FHS if I'm right. And if it is it wouldn't harm anybody as you can still install LSB packages even if a libexec directory exist. If I'm right, RedHat has libexec too (or at least used to have). :-)) Anyhow, I'm just get told on #debian-devel that the Hurd should be ported to Debian instead and Debian shouldn't change. They say policy is more important than ABI compatibility with existing systems. I wish the BSD people a lot of luck, I'm happy to be out of here. Good bye Debian Developers (I just unsubscribed from debian-devel and will only reply to things mailed to debian-hurd or me). Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org IRC ID: jeroen@openprojects GNU supporter - http://www.gnu.org
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