Preparing for a point release

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Wed Dec 6 03:44:29 UTC 2017


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> Why would we want to do a distro install?

Because it makes life easier for overworked upstream packagers.

By a "distro install" I mean one to rootspace (normally /usr) rather
than /usr/local.
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