On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 02:56:03AM +0200, Samuel Hornus wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Here is a not very useful question :
> 
> What does the word 'dist' means in the file hierarchy of /usr/src ?
> /usr/src/dist
> /usr/src/crypto/dist
> etc...
> 
> ditribution ? distant (files) ? distillation ?
> 
> err...distransportation(as in Hyperion/Dan Simmons) ?

This is where thid-party sources (sendmail, gcc, etc ...) are imported,
without much modifications. The build mechanism is elsewhere and pulls in
sources from there.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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