Quoting Ciaran McCreesh (ciaranm@gentoo.org):
> Aaah, this is the source of many great flamefests, and no-one ever
> wins...
Yeah, I rather not divulge myself into them. I'm a BSD-guy at heart.
I still think that with Linux in general, the distinction between what
is the OS and what is third-party software is blurred. With BSD, I
know that ls(1) is part of the OS and is managed by /usr/src and if I
want to fiddle with it's source code, I know where to go.
Firefox or even worse, Gimp isn't part of what we call the OS. It's
third-party software. ls(1) in Linux is from sys-apps/coreutils in
gentoo, but from GNU fileutils elsewhere.
So, I guess, in the end, since what we call "Linux" is a sum of a
gazillion of parts coming from a gazillion of sources, I guess it's
best to put it in a centralized way and provide support for all of
them as if they were part of the OS.
> [ Sidenote: *BSD still gets this wrong. ]
Well, you should say "*I think* *BSD still gets this wrong". To that,
I reply for *BSD, they do it right.
> [ Another Sidenote: Slowaris is far worse. ]
Yeah, sometimes it's /opt, sometimes it's /usr. Mostly since 2.8 they
started to do it the "Linux-way" by importing a bunch of GNU and free
software into the base OS (perl, bash, and other stuff).
Ciao,
...David
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