Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Alan Cox) | | Subject | Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:35:35 +0000 (GMT) |
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> But Debian probably just did it that way to look like System V, and > you can think of the Slackware files as a creative simplification of > the System V rigmarole.
The FSSTND, Debian,Red Hat, SuSE etc follow the System 5 tradition, there is a script for each program. That makes package management a lot simpler because you can add/delete files with a fair amount of control compared to making installers edit rc.M (memories of programs patching autoexec.bat).
Th Slackware style rc files come from the older SunOS/BSD tradition.
Alan
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