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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo vs. the FHS
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:37:23
Message-Id: 200309232237.22223.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo vs. the FHS by Stanislav Brabec
1 On Tuesday 23 September 2003 16:08, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
2 > 3)
3 > /home/httpd (/home is reserved for users, service home is not yet
4 > standardized, will probably be /srv, currently /var/lib or /var is used
5 > in other distros, too)
6 > Causes big problem on AFS or NFS /home systems (unable to emerge update
7 > on client machines; unable to have two webservers in one network,
8 > because they are sharing data).
9
10 umm there is already work to redo this. if you're interested, do some
11 research on our web-apps herd.
12
13 > 4)
14 > /usr/kde and /usr/qt (/usr should not have sub-trees, sub trees are
15 > allowed in /opt, i. e. /opt/kde and /opt/kde).
16
17 afaik there are no plans to change this. there have been a few bugs iirc
18 about this, but all have been closed as WONTFIX or INVALID. i'd suggest
19 e-mailing kde@gentoo about it.
20
21 > 4)
22 > /usr/games should be a directory for binaries, not subtree, (i. e.
23 > /usr/games/bin -> /usr/games, /usr/games/lib -> /usr/lib,
24 > /usr/games/share -> /usr/share/games).
25
26 hmm the games setup (can be found in games.eclass) was created based upon
27 (well what i thought was ...) FHS compliance ... i'll go back and review this
28 again ...
29 if you want to see the current design, just read the games.eclass.
30
31 > 5)
32 > /usr/X11R6/share is not in FHS (probably move --datadir to
33 > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11)
34
35 should e-mail xfree@gentoo and/or file a bug ...
36
37 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo vs. the FHS Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo vs. the FHS Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>