Hello Felipe!

Am 31 Aug 06, Maurice Kinal schrieb an Felipe T. Dorado:

 MK> This is one of the reasons I like to build my own Linux distribution
 MK> or use Slackware since all the major Linux distributions never seem
 MK> to want you to know how they do Linux.  :-)

Felipe, you asked for a common setup script some mails before. Above you
can see that there is no common setup. The package systems of linux are for
handling the things you want to use on your system. Sooner or later you
will not like the default settings and want to do it your own way. Then you
do not have *a* linux system, you have *your* linux system. And it is
difficult to handle your system with a common script file.

That is the reason why you need to check all keywords in the config files,
not everybody uses /usr as default path. Some can't use it because /usr is
on a read-only medium and /usr/local is read-writable (*). A script writer
do not know that and can't handle all possibilites.

The ncurses-dev is a good example, a user of the default setup - the
build-in software of the distribtion - does not need that -dev package. You
need it because you want more than the default.

(*) If you want to learn more about the background and your linux system
read the fhs - file hierarchical standard. Very dry stuff, but i found it
useful. As far i can remember it is included in the debian distribution.

Tschuess

Kai

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