Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Marek Habersack wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote:
> Come on!!! Go back and re-read your statement... What's packaging all about?
> About changing the binary installation layout of some package to fit
> particular dist's requiremets or some standard of other sorts. And where do
> you imagine you get all those spiffy packages in Debian from? It's from
> hundreds of people EDITING EVERYTHING so that you can just type dpkg -i
> package.deb and enjoy the way it works...
>
> marek
No, Marek, you reread my original. Joe Blow gets some package designed for
Red Hat. How is he going to install that on his Debian system. He learns
he can convert it to a tarball ... whats that? Ok, so he does it. It
still won't install. Hmmm, looks like I have to call a $200/hr Unix
consultant to see IF I can get this stuff installed on my system.
The point being, do NOT assume that the person trying to load the orignial
Red Hat package even knows what a Makefile is.
George Bonser
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