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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: the sorry state of the ftp directories
From:       Merlin <merlin_001 () glenncounty ! net>
Date:       1999-06-30 4:40:31
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Hi all!

I's funny you bring this up.  I'm currently downloading the Red Hat 5.2
directory of 1.1.1, and being that I'm really new to UNIX, I haven't a clue
about a lot of things.  Anyway, thought it was a weird coincidence.  Maybe
I just need to get out more =^)

Thank you kindly,
David
>greetings.
>
>forgive my saying so, but the kde.org ftp directories are a holy
>terror!
>
>let's say that you are a new user and you are interested in kde, and
>you go to the ftp site or a mirror and seek to download, say, rpms
>for caldera 2.2. never mind that there are apparently identical
>directories for col-2.2 and Caldera-OpenLinux-2.2 (which to choose?)
>there are in the compiled binaries about five different build levels,
>bits and pieces, some compatible with each other, some not.
>
>god help us if somebody using an libc5 system wants a compiled binary.
>
>the redhat section is worse.
>
>there is not, so far as i can tell, any explanation on the site,
>which is mirrored around the world.
>
>any chance that this tremendous disarray can get fixed?

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