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Re: plea for "vanilla" sub-directories



On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 05:49:55PM +0200, Marc.Herbert@ens-lyon.fr wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I do not take much risk pretending that the "disks-i386/current/"
> directory tree is extremely confusing for most people, especially for
> the newcomers.
> 
> <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s4.2>
> 
> I think a simple (?) modification would greatly enhance understanding of
> this (lack of?) order and enhance understanding of the whole "4.2
> Downloading Files from Debian Mirrors" section in general:
> 
>    the addition of "vanilla" sub-directories.
> 
> For instance, today, you can find "kernel-config" files at 3 (!)
> different depths in the hierarchy. Using "vanilla" sub-dirs (or
> "default" sub_dirs, or even both names with a symbolic link,...), that
> would reduce this to 2 different depths only, and even 1 depth only for
> most other files.

I agree totally. Is there already such a bug? If not could you file it?

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