Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Jan 1999 20:34:09 +1100 (EST) | From | Damien Miller <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Gnumenclature was Re: IBM, was never Re: Linux Kernel |
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On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Larry McVoy wrote:
> "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?
Perhaps it is because Linux vendors are trying to make their distributions more compatible (through projects such as the LSB) and such a naming convention would only serve to drive them further apart.
The distributions are not that different anyway, compared to the various flavours of BSD, which I presume the Vendor field was intended to distinguish between.
Think of a new user's confusion as (s)he attempts to use a system where some of the packages report *-redhat-linux and others *-debian-linux?
Regards, Damien Miller
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