Seems to me that symlinks provided by a distribution would be usefull as a transitional measure only. Until applications eventually move over to the new /dev locations. So...
Part of any application's perogerative is to deal with the platform(s) it runs on. Wine makes some special allowances for Solaris, and MacOS...
so... there a theme here?
--tim
On 4/19/06, Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org wrote:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 20:00, Mike McCormack wrote:
Mike Frysinger wrote:
dont really know who you're talking about when you say "you guys" ... sounds like you're trying to say this situation is my fault when really i nor Gentoo has had anything to do with /dev naming schemas
Yes, it is Gentoo's fault. Your distro is missing a symlink, and instead of just adding the it, you waste everybody else's time running around "fixing" their projects.
i can see this thread is clearly going to go nowhere so we might as well just kill it now before we waste each other's time trying to "educate" why the other person is wrong -mike