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From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-03-11
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:30:41
Message-Id: 20140228133010.39074078@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-03-11 by Samuli Suominen
1 On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:58:17 +0200
2 Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
3
4 >
5 > On 28/02/14 13:15, Patrick Lauer wrote:
6 > > On 02/27/2014 09:08 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
7 > >> Hi everyone,
8 > >>
9 > >> I'm putting the call out there for any agenda items for the next
10 > >> Council meeting, which will be held on March 11, 2014 at 1900
11 > >> UTC. This is short notice but we got off track because of FOSDEM
12 > >> and we're going to try to get back on track.
13 > >>
14 > >> So far, the only item is final ratification of glep 63 [1].
15 > > Since it's still a bit cold I'd like to start a nice fire to warm
16 > > us up:
17 > >
18 > > I'd like QA and Council to figure out how much we care about FHS.
19 > >
20 > > My main complaint is some projects (including e.g. systemd and
21 > > apparently now also udev) storing config files in /lib
22 > > and/or /usr/lib.
23 > >
24 > > From FHS' point of view this is totally wrong, config files go
25 > > to /etc Only libraries should be in /lib.
26 >
27 > Wow.
28 > What about libtool .la text files?
29 > What about kernel modules?
30 > What about the genereted modules.* data in /lib/modules/$version/
31 > which are used in early boot by eg. kmod-static-nodes?
32 > What about the binaries of OpenRC in /lib/rc, they aren't libraries?
33 > And what about vendor modprobe.d files in /lib/modprobe.d?
34 > I could continue this all day. I'm just trying to point out "Only
35 > libraries should be in /lib." is complete bs and does not work.
36 > Does FHS really articulate it the way you said it, "Only libraries
37 > should be in /lib." or was that your own interpretation of it?
38 >
39 > I'm not really expecting an answer as I'm already convinced FHS is so
40 > badly outdated it's sad it doesn't suit
41 > modern systems.
42 > I hope they will catch up at some point.
43
44 That's like saying a new modern browser which doesn't follow the web
45 standards is to be used to form a new revision of those web standards.
46
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59
60 Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
61 Gentoo Developer
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