[plug] standard (was X startup)

[John Knight]

You can see why I was pitching the idea of a 'GNU Standards Burea' the other 
day. Why not have it across the board? If I get a package from a Mandrake 
CD, there's bugger all chance of it working with RH or SuSE, unless you get 
a bunch of other libraries and packages from here, there and everywhere. 
Even then, I have probs installing a lot of games under RH 7.3 because it 
requires a package that I have no idea what it is. Why can't we have some 
sort of GNU standard desktop, where it has a basic desktop with certain 
libraries, and then a programme's readme says what other packages are 
required on top of that?

Enough of my whinging, you get the idea! ;)
>
>On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 19:50, Leon Brooks wrote:
>
> > init 3
>
>In proving that all linux distributions are written by monkeys on crack.
>It has occurred to me that differing distros have different runlevels to
>mean the same thing.
>
>In Redhat:
>0	Shutdown
>1	Bootup
>2	Single user mode
>3	Multiuser
>4	-
>5	X11
>6	Reboot
>
>In Debian (iirc):
>0	Shutdown
>1	Single user mode
>2	Console
>3	X11
>? (4?)	Reboot
>
>Now, who can explain what kind of crack monkey couldn't choose a
>standard for this?
>
>The biggest problem with linux, and why it will die? Basic things like
>runlevels and init.d work differently from platform to platform. It
>makes it a lot harder.
>
>--proXy
>
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