Messages in this thread | | | From | (Larry McVoy) | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Gnumenclature was Re: IBM, was never Re: Linux Kernel | Date | Mon, 04 Jan 1999 00:06:21 -0800 |
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: | It would appear to me that you haven't spent any time trying to deploy : | a package on the various Linux systems. Suse doesn't use glibc yet, : | but they are RPM based. Furthermore, their init layout is different : | than RedHat's layout (and that's just where the problems start).
"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net>: : Yes, but those also happen to non-Linux systems, and I have to work with a : lot of those. So I deal with them using non-Linux-specific methods --- : thus, a distribution identifier does nothing useful.
That's really great that you have it all figured out. However, there are people who actually use config.guess for it's intended purpose - as an installation/configuration aid. Given that purpose, why is it so hard for you to understand that:
*-redhat-linux *-suse-linux *-debian-linux *-caldera-linux etc
is far more useful than
*-gnu-linux
What's so darned hard about following that logic?
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