Re: [PATCH] modules_install

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Tue, 06 Oct 1998 17:20:57 -0300


In message <Pine.GSO.4.04.9810060912500.22278-100000@oobleck.gatech.edu>,
Chris
Ricker writes:
+-----
| On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Matthew D. Pitts wrote:
| > > On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Gerhard Mack wrote:
| > > And anyway, /root doesn't exist on all machines.
|
| > It does on Slackware and Caldera that I know of and probably on Redhat as
| > well. I don't have any experience with SuSe or any European distributions.
|
| Wrong. It does as shipped. After I finish installing a RedHat system, it
| doesn't.
+--->8

User configuration files in / are ugly. /root is far preferable.

That doesn't mean the kernel should rely on it, but I don't think getting
rid of it accomplishes anything except filling / with noise.

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system administrator	     [WAY too many hats]	   allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering					 KF8NH
carnegie mellon university

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