Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Marek Habersack wrote:
> Read the section 2.1.1 of the manual and relate that to the Applixware
> package... It has nothing to do with the package compatibility, but puts it
> in plain vanilla that Applixware shall not be a part of Debian, so what George
> said can't be an argument in this discussion. Maybe I'm wrong...
>
> marek
Nobody ever mentioned anything about making these packages a part of the
Debian distribution.
Example: I use a lot of Debian servers at work. This is because it saves
a lot of admin time. It is more cost effective for me. Now we want to use
some of the commercial products that are being made available for Linux to
provide services to our customers using Linux as the platform. Some of
these software products are difficult to install on anything other than
Red Hat. At some point, the cost of porting these things to Debian
exceeds the cost of just giving up and going with Red Hat.
I fight an uphill battle every day justifying keeping Debian over Red Hat
and I will soon start loosing ground. Debian is better, not from a
political standpoint but from a technical standpoint. So was the Beta
video format but Beta VCR's were much more expensive. Beta is, for all
practical purposes, gone from the consumer market.
Debian NEEDS to be compatable with non-Debian applications if it is to
survive as anything other than a hobby project. I think there are things
that can be done (such as playing musical symlinks in /etc/rc.d) that can
make Debian more accessable to software vendors.
Creation of a Red Hat compatable rc.d structure based on symlinks will
make things easier and buy me a little time but that is not the RIGHT way
to fix it, it is only treating the symptoms. To cure the disease, we must
make a standard that all distributions can follow that does not take away
capabilities.
George Bonser
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