Re: Gentoo: To mirror or not to mirror?

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 09:00:46PM -0600, John Bell wrote:
> Well, 1.4 is introducing what is called GRP (Gentoo Reference Platform)
> the major pieces of software precompiled for the popular platforms.  

Good.  That would eliminate my major gripe.

> I have to disagree with you here.  I don't think they are BSD style. 
> They're not strickly SysV either.  Its more a composite of SysV and the
> new need/provide methodoly from Richard Gooch.  Like I said earlier the
> only thing I wish they did differently was stick to the SysV directory
> structure.  Most s/w today that uses init scripts recognizes /etc/rc.d. 
> On gentoo, its /etc/init.d, and /etc/runlevels.

But do they have /etc/rc?.d for the various runlevels?

I'll freely admit that the BSD init scripts comment is based on what
others have told me, not anything I've seen for myself.  I'd be happy
to be wrong about it.

Steve
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