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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!caen!umeecs!niagara.eecs.umich.edu!khushro From: khushro@niagara.eecs.umich.edu (Khushro Shahookar) Subject: What exactly is the idea behind etcdist? Message-ID: <1993Apr14.024829.17151@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News) Reply-To: khushro@niagara.eecs.umich.edu (Khushro Shahookar) Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 02:48:29 GMT Lines: 26 Can someone please help me make some sense out of etcdist before I wade thru the whole thing? Why are some of teh things already in bindist repeated in etcdist? Are the etcdist tools superior? For example what is the difference between /bin/dd and /usr/othersrc/public/fileutils-3.2/bin/dd? There is no man page for dd in bindist, but there is one in etcdist. The man pages for ln in bindist and etcdist are different (etcdist man page is twice as long) Should I just go ahead and reinstall everything in etcdist regardless of whether it already exists? Should I overwrite the existing tools, or maintain the etcdist version in a separate directory, and forever worry about which one is in the user's path first? (same for different versions of man pages) -- Copyright KHUSHRO SHAHOOKAR, $0.02 khushro@eecs.umich.edu Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor