Fink should install itself into/usr/local/fink. Why doesn't it? And please do not point me towards the Fink FAQ--this only refers to installing in/usr/local (fine, a bad idea), but neverthelss,/sw should not be the alternative./usr/local/fink with directories like/usr/local/fink/bin and/usr/local/fink/lib would be a considerably more Unix-consistent place to put these files.
Completely wrong!
/usr/local/ isn't meant to have this directory structure. Packages in/usr/local/ should install their binaries to/usr/local/bin/, their libs to/usr/local/lib/ (there they could have a subdirectory, just like in/usr/lib/), their man pages to/usr/local/man/manX/ etc.
Packages that want to manage their own directory structure should use/opt/Name/.
M$ isn't sued just for hosting the images but for publishing them. M$ has (or had, I think they changed it) a paragraph in their terms of service which required users of msn Germany to give all rights on content posted to msn to M$. If they really were just a service provider they couldn't have been sued (at least not by german law).
... as iso images. People already running Debian/Sparc or Debian/Alpha will be able to update using apt-get. The only problem will be that you can't install new machines using woody (but you can install potato and then do a apt-get dist-upgrade to get a recent OS).
> Sync software for Windows users not very mature (just released recently)
Sure, after all, it's a Linux PDA. They first finished the sync software for Linux. At least on their german page the windows software is marked as "not completely finished".
Your understanding is correct, but your example is misplaced. The GNU libc isn't GPL'd, but LGPL'd; so it's legal to distribute a non-GPL'd program linked against the glibc - even a proprietary program.
The name is actually "A For Anything", now I found it at Amazon, the author is Damon Knight, published by Cascade Mountain Publishing; ISBN: 1892884011.
Hmm, maybe it's just that I'm comparing the other implementations out there, but I don't see why the applications can't just use the same old unix calls to see if they have permission to read or write to a file.
The problem is not reading or writing, but modifying the permissions. You are completly right that the normal access check is hidden in the kernel, but you need a standardized API to modify ACLs on all FSs.
Or maybe we mean different things by application. I would expect each ACL implementation to have it's own tools for maintaining the ACL.
Would you be happy if you had to use a special tool for every fstype? I think most people would like to set permissions from their favorite file manager (kfm/konqueror, mc, gmc...)
The Gregorian Calendar is an iso-standard for international trading etc. For example Russia, whose orthodox church still uses the Julian Calendar, uses for public life the Gregorian Calendar.
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Packages that want to manage their own directory structure should use /opt/Name/.
M$ isn't sued just for hosting the images but for publishing them.
M$ has (or had, I think they changed it) a paragraph in their terms of service which required users of msn Germany to give all rights on content posted to msn to M$.
If they really were just a service provider they couldn't have been sued (at least not by german law).
Jo
... as iso images.
People already running Debian/Sparc or Debian/Alpha will be able to update using apt-get.
The only problem will be that you can't install new machines using woody (but you can install potato and then do a apt-get dist-upgrade to get a recent OS).
Jo
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Sure, after all, it's a Linux PDA. They first finished the sync software for Linux. At least on their german page the windows software is marked as "not completely finished".
Jo
Your understanding is correct, but your example is misplaced. The GNU libc isn't GPL'd, but LGPL'd; so it's legal to distribute a non-GPL'd program linked against the glibc - even a proprietary program.
Jo
The name is actually "A For Anything", now I found it at Amazon, the author is Damon Knight, published by Cascade Mountain Publishing; ISBN: 1892884011.
Jo
A just looked at Amazon and didn't find any book that fitted your description. Can you tell me the name of the author - or, much better: the ISBN?
tnx,
Jo
The problem is not reading or writing, but modifying the permissions. You are completly right that the normal access check is hidden in the kernel, but you need a standardized API to modify ACLs on all FSs.
Or maybe we mean different things by application. I would expect each ACL implementation to have it's own tools for maintaining the ACL.
Would you be happy if you had to use a special tool for every fstype? I think most people would like to set permissions from their favorite file manager (kfm/konqueror, mc, gmc ...)
Jo
sure it is - it weren't, if he didn't distribute binaries, but as he distributes binaries he also has to the source (GPL 3a).
Jo
The Gregorian Calendar is an iso-standard for international trading etc.
For example Russia, whose orthodox church still uses the Julian Calendar, uses for public life the Gregorian Calendar.
Jo