On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 06:49:15PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.cx> writes: > > > The GNU system, commonly found in the gnu-0.2 directory. But that > > isn't a problem, we also have a *BSD system in Debian. We have to be > > compatible with that and libexec is part of the BSD ABI because the > > loader is located in libexec. > > Oh, this is going way overboard. The Hurd should do the right thing > (and sure, I think that having /libexec is the Right Thing), but that > doesn't mean that gnu-0.2 has any particular status. We have no > particular reason to care about compatibility with gnu-0.2. But some people think GNU/Hurd didn't exist before Debian GNU/Hurd was created, that's the relevance here. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org IRC ID: jeroen@openprojects GNU supporter - http://www.gnu.org
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