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SubjectRe: [OFFTOPIC] Gnumenclature was Re: IBM, was never Re: Linux Kernel
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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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