Re: 1.0

[Carlos Carvalho <carlos@snfep1.if.usp.br>]

Dirk Eddelbuettel (Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca) wrote on 15 November 1995 08:46:

 >  Carlos>  Keeping a distribution intact is an illusion. I've just installed
 >  Carlos> it and have already changed many things. A distribution is only
 >  Carlos> good for a start, particularly the base part. The packages are more
 >  Carlos> "upgradable" from the distribution.
 >
 >Why don't you use the /usr/local part of the filesystem? 

I do when possible.

 >Works perfectly well for local additions to TeX (/usr/local/lib/texmf/),
 >emacs (/usr/local/lib/emacs/site-lisp), info files (/usr/local/info with
 >referenes from /usr/info/dir), local configuration scripts in /usr/local/etc,
 >local src, includes,  libs and so on. 
 >
 >Some changes have of course to be made to files in /etc or /boot --- but
 >that's why Debian packages normally declare these files as conffiles so that
 >they are not inadvertedly overwritten during upgrades the relevant package.

There are things that I want in the root partition. For example, I
want zsh as my login shell for root, and I want it in /bin in case
/usr is not accessible. Also, I want color-ls, and in /bin for the
same reason. Further, I want e2fsprogs-0.5c.tar.gz, which makes a
mess in /sbin, etc. I also want cp to be able to copy sparse files
without filling the disk with zeroes, so I'll patch it and recompile.

Carlos