Re: Why were all DJB's ports removed? No more qmail?

[liam <allenwc_(_at_)_infomatrix_(_dot_)_ca>]

At 8:09 PM +0000 9/4/01, D. J. Bernstein wrote this lot:
> William Allen writes:
>  > when you create a new root directory where does it go physically
>
> The allocation of files to filesystems is, as usual, up to the system
> administrator. Some reasonable default ways to set up /package: a big
> separate filesystem; a symlink into /home; a symlink into /usr; etc.

So, I can install qmail in /usr/local/qmail/... and then make a 
symlink to /packages/qmail?

I thought your license said that qmail MUST be installed in only one 
particular location for YOUR choosing, and left not "up to the system 
administrator"?

Perhaps I've misread, or misunderstood you. Could you illuminate this 
further please?

If I read you correctly, the system administrator can install 
packages where ever they need to go according to that systems 
heirarchy, but then to use you package concept, they need to make 
symbolic links to the /package heirarchy, thus giving a common cross 
system point of reference?

Is that correct?

Also, after looking at your pages, I'm wondering why you don't appear 
to like the POSIX standard. At least it is a standard? No?
I mean, if every Unix distro out there adopted the POSIX standards, 
including the POSIX OSE(HFS), then pretty much all of arguments about 
conformance would be moot, wouldn't they?

Well, at least that is their intent as far as I understand it.

<-->Later . . . 'liam

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