[clue-tech] Any Gentoo users in the group?

[Yuko Jonah]

While at this are there any Linux From Scratch users around, or someone who
knows how to install this beast. would like to try it out.

On 9/1/07, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/1/07, Dennis J Perkins <dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 07:51 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> > > On 8/31/07, dennisjperkins at comcast.net <dennisjperkins at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > > > If there are any Gentoo users in the group, do they know if Gentoo
> is LSB compliant?
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > >
> > > Gentoo is mostly and intentionally LSB compliant, but the LSB has some
> > > ridiculous notions about the /usr hierarchy that interfere with the
> > > ability to include multiple versions of major systems like KDE and
> > > GNOME. Instead of throwing these i /usr/bin, they use something like
> > > /usr/kde/<rel>/bin so that KDE releases don't conflict with one
> > > another.
> > >
> > > Most distros live quite happily with the /usr restrictions, because
> > > they don't care about multiple KDE/GNOME releases.
> > >
> >
> > I've been exploring bootscripts and that has expanded into how various
> > distros handle them.
> >
>
> I haven't really studied the LSB. My general impression in the past
> was the the LSB was really the RH[RedHat}SB, ie that they took RH
> usage from about 5 years ago and made it the standard, although I have
> heard that Debian had significant input as well.
>
> Whatever. I'm not especially interested in the LSB. Gentoo bootscripts
> are a completely new creation with dependency checking built in, and
> the runlevels are pretty much irrelevant. Even Debian/Ubuntu has a
> different scheme of runlevels. And then there's Slackware, one of my
> favorites, who have stuck with BSD style bootscripts.
>
> Since most users will never encounter anything but runlevel5(4 for
> some distros) for gui and runlevel 6 for shutdown, the whole business
> of trying to cooerce everyone into an (IMHO) antequated pattern is
> just a big ho-hum.
>
> --
> Collins Richey
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>      of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
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