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.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Collins Richey
</b> <<a href="mailto:crichey@gmail.com">crichey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 9/1/07, Dennis J Perkins <
<a href="mailto:dennisjperkins@comcast.net">dennisjperkins@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>> On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 07:51 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:<br>> > On 8/31/07, <a href="mailto:dennisjperkins@comcast.net">dennisjperkins@comcast.net
</a> <<a href="mailto:dennisjperkins@comcast.net">dennisjperkins@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>> > > If there are any Gentoo users in the group, do they know if Gentoo is LSB compliant?<br>> > > _______________________________________________
<br>> ><br>> > Gentoo is mostly and intentionally LSB compliant, but the LSB has some<br>> > ridiculous notions about the /usr hierarchy that interfere with the<br>> > ability to include multiple versions of major systems like KDE and
<br>> > GNOME. Instead of throwing these i /usr/bin, they use something like<br>> > /usr/kde/<rel>/bin so that KDE releases don't conflict with one<br>> > another.<br>> ><br>> > Most distros live quite happily with the /usr restrictions, because
<br>> > they don't care about multiple KDE/GNOME releases.<br>> ><br>><br>> I've been exploring bootscripts and that has expanded into how various<br>> distros handle them.<br>><br><br>I haven't really studied the LSB. My general impression in the past
<br>was the the LSB was really the RH[RedHat}SB, ie that they took RH<br>usage from about 5 years ago and made it the standard, although I have<br>heard that Debian had significant input as well.<br><br>Whatever. I'm not especially interested in the LSB. Gentoo bootscripts
<br>are a completely new creation with dependency checking built in, and<br>the runlevels are pretty much irrelevant. Even Debian/Ubuntu has a<br>different scheme of runlevels. And then there's Slackware, one of my<br>
favorites, who have stuck with BSD style bootscripts.<br><br>Since most users will never encounter anything but runlevel5(4 for<br>some distros) for gui and runlevel 6 for shutdown, the whole business<br>of trying to cooerce everyone into an (IMHO) antequated pattern is
<br>just a big ho-hum.<br><br>--<br>Collins Richey<br> If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries<br> of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.<br>_______________________________________________
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