Unfortunately, annoyances (hopefully temporary) are to be expected if people want to bring slightly-varying standards together to match a unified standard.
At least you can use symlinks to get around the multiple file locations for now. it'll be annoying for awhile, but hopefully, eventually, as future distributions become more standards compliant the old symlinks can be phased out over time.
Other problems might be encountered that simple links can't fix, that'll be a harder problem to solve in the meantime. Such as varying formats for etc files, for instance. Any lists of known problems/inconsistencies of this type?
Darpa should keep it's nose out of the internet business. The internet is a creation of the free market and they
are trying to coopt it for the gumint.
Too bad that DARPA INVENTED the Internet! Back when they were still ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency). Now they've become DARPA by throwing a Defense in front of the ARPA.
So as Mr. T would say, "Cut that jibba-jabba, fool! Internet wuzn't no creation of the free-market!"
But what happens when some malicious person decides to screw with the code? That's right. Disaster. It's on
the horizon.
And this is different from closed-source HOW?
You seem to imply that it is because you also say this:
Open Source has the most vulnerable model available, yes. Anybody who knows
how to code can put anything they want into the code.
That's why you don't compile random modules into the kernel. And it's also why you don't execute randomly-compiled code as root. This is in NO WAY different than me taking a closed-source kernel, doing some modifications to the binaries, and you running them on your own.
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At least you can use symlinks to get around the multiple file locations for now. it'll be annoying for awhile, but hopefully, eventually, as future distributions become more standards compliant the old symlinks can be phased out over time.
Other problems might be encountered that simple links can't fix, that'll be a harder problem to solve in the meantime. Such as varying formats for etc files, for instance. Any lists of known problems/inconsistencies of this type?
I see you, too, are helping clear the bridges of those pesky trolls.
let's hang out in the pub tonite and drink some Troll Sweat brew.
that's the point, anon!
Too bad that DARPA INVENTED the Internet! Back when they were still ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency). Now they've become DARPA by throwing a Defense in front of the ARPA.
So as Mr. T would say, "Cut that jibba-jabba, fool! Internet wuzn't no creation of the free-market!"
And this is different from closed-source HOW? You seem to imply that it is because you also say this:
Open Source has the most vulnerable model available, yes. Anybody who knows how to code can put anything they want into the code.
That's why you don't compile random modules into the kernel. And it's also why you don't execute randomly-compiled code as root. This is in NO WAY different than me taking a closed-source kernel, doing some modifications to the binaries, and you running them on your own.