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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
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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)

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Copyright KHUSHRO SHAHOOKAR,   $0.02
khushro@eecs.umich.edu   Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor