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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Software installation opinions needed
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Date: 21 Sep 90 15:32:07 GMT
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In a recent article chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:

>I would break this even further: the part that is the same for all
>hosts *regardless of architecture*; the part that is the same for
>all hosts of the same architecture; and the part that is always unique.

I would break this down even further: the part that is the same for
all hosts regardless of architecture, o/s version and UNIX vendor;
the part that is the same for all hosts running the same o/s version
from the same o/s vendor regardless of architecture (I believe that
this is what Sun intends with their /usr/share directory); the part
that is the same for all hosts of the same architecture running the
same o/s version; and the part that is always unique for a particular
host. So there.

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