On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Aaron Toponce <aaron.topo...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Do you have another example besides Apache, because Debian adheres to > the Unix filesystem locations more closely than others. Off the top of > my head: > > Debian vs. RHEL > /etc/default/ vs. /etc/sysconfig/ > /boot/grub/menu.lst vs. /boot/grub/grub.conf > /etc/rc?.d/ vs. /etc/rc.d/rc?.d/ > /etc/init.d/ vs. /etc/rc.d/init.d/ > /var/www/ vs. /var/www/html/ > > From my experience, it seems Debian is more vanilla than RHEL- or even > SUSE-based distros. > >From my perspective, the problem is that the distribution shouldn't be changing where a package puts stuff. If a package is doing something "wrong" then they need to work with the upstream to fix it, if they just fix it themselves, then when I go to the help files for grup, apache, etc, and they say: edit the conf fine found here /path/path/path, and I go there, and it isn't there..... AAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH....... Why did my distro move it? This is part of the larger issue with debian "fixing" things themselves instead of working with the package to fix things so everything is the same across distros. > I like the way Debian has changed Apache. Enabling and disabling sites > and modules seems much more intuitive to me than how non-Debian-based > operating systems handle it. Also, having an /etc/apache2/apache.conf > makes more sense than /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Isn't /etc/ for system > configs? Why make yet another config directory beneath it? Just my > opinion though. > See, this is the heart of the problem. I don't care if you "like" how they changed things, they shouldn't be changing stuff willy nilly on their own. If they have a suggestion about how to make apache better, they should be working with apache to get their idea standard, not just sticking it in because they think it is shiny.... That makes getting help or even understanding what is going on a beast. James -- "And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun..." (Mark 16:2) Web: http://james.jlcarroll.net
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