[chat] Re: [SLUG] Potato -> Woody

[Matthew Palmer <mjp16@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Terry Collins wrote:

> > [Cue rant about the whole
> > /usr thing, and why can't we use package-specific directories]
> 
> Oooh! sacrilege, stone the heretic -   debian excommunication imminent

Yeah, I know.  Debian's development process is pure Gold, but I believe they
have *seriously* fscked up in putting everything in /usr.  If I want
multiple versions of a package installed (OpenLDAP 1->2 is a damn good first
example, from practical experience) I've got to seriously bugger around with
diversions (ick, ick, ick, and I *still* don't know how they work, really,
and the don't solve the damn problem anyway) or do what I did and manually
extract the archives, put them in suitable places (/opt is my friend) and
screw with the startup scripts.  Ick.

I'll just add the default URL for this discussion:

http://www.w3.org/2001/03/14/StandardizedPackagingSystem/


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