Re: where do NEW packages go?
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:56:15AM +0200, Damien Genet wrote:
> > When I install Debian(be it Linux/alpha, Linux/s390, FreeBSD/arm), I want to
> > know it functions like Debian, with all of it's filesystem layouts and
> > interface programs.
> >
> > If Debian Linux/alpha, Debian FreeBSD/arm, and Debian hurd-i386 are all
> > different, then what is the point of Debian?
>
> i'm sorry, but that's just stupid
> they are all different, and all have specificities
> you are also amalgaming ports and os
>
> what a user installing a Debian GNU/linux, Debian GNU/Hurd,or Debian
> *BSD, want to see is not only a Debian distribution, (ie: common tools
> to administate it, common policy on where the files belongs)
> but he also want to use a different os, (or what would be the interrest
> to have different os then...),
No. The operating system in general is still Debian, whereas the kernel, the
C library, or whatever else, is different.
> and they are some specificities that can't be avoided
I don't see how could he have been talking about the differences that can't
be avoided.
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