Re: [TCLUG:15481] Faeriedist

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

>No, you really do want platform independance built in to how files or
>organised.  Lets say i have 50 low-end machines, 1/3 sparc, 1/3 ppc, and
>1/3 x86.
>
>You tell *me* how much fun it is to have 3 seperate soft trees.  Or if I
>could have just trees with platform dependant stuff and one platform
>independant tree.
        therein lies the rub. in a corporate environment, where you have
*many* heterogenous machines; possibly with remotely-mounted filesystems (or
at least remotely maintained filesystems); and people knowlegeable enough to
maintain them; it makes sense to split off as much "shareable" stuff as
possible. 
        for a home/small environment, where one does not need (or want) to
worry about such things; the extra complexity is a _bad thing_.

I'm willing to bet there are (or will be) more of the latter than the
former; and those in the former situation will be smart enough to be able to
do things their own way, anyway.

Carl Soderstrom
System Administrator    307 Brighton Ave. 
Minnesota DHIA	        Buffalo, MN	
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