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On Thursday 01 of January 2009 22:03:55 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> No, FHS is not the most commonly used layout. The traditional Unix |
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> layout is the most commonly used layout. |
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So.. why not blindly use Unix layout everywhere instead (for Gentoo news as |
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well) |
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On Thursday 01 of January 2009 22:37:28 Alistair Bush wrote: |
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> I actually agreed with Ciaran on this point. especially seeing I would |
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> like us to follow the parts of LSB that make sense within the Gentoo |
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> ecosystem. (take Init Script Actions as an possible example |
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> http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-ge |
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>neric/iniscrptact.html). |
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So, you agree with Mr Ciaran on that FHS is silly or on blindly following |
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*every* LSB standard being silly? Great, but I wasn't suggesting any of this, |
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I just suggested to pick any standard (most commonly used in Gentoo already), |
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and *only one* and blindly follow it to avoid inconsistency. |
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In such scenario, please elaborate what is your point really. |
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>> It's not the point to blindly follow freedesktop or LSB - the point is to |
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>> consistently follow one standard across whole distribution - if it's FHS |
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>> - fine, if not - fine as well - but *only one* at a time. |
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> > That being said I'd rather propose to force Gentoo news to comply to |
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>> FHS as FHS is the most commonly used file/directory layout in Gentoo. |
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> This really is bikeshedding...... Isn't consistently following a |
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> standard also blindly following it. So when you ask us to consistently |
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> follow FHS why not ask for us to blindly follow it. |
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> Man this is getting boring. |
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Yes, you're right. Let everyone follow his own standards - everyone likes |
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spaghetti afterall... (just look at eclasses/ebuilds in you're uncertain) |
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No, it's not bikeshedding, it's misunderstanding the sentence. |
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Consistently following *some* standard is blindly following *the same* |
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standard, but consistently following *some standard* is *not* blindly |
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following LSB nor is blindly following FHS. See the difference? |
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So to make it all clear once again and for the last time - I would rather |
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propose to force Gentoo news to comply to existing the most commonly used |
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file/directory hierarchy structure in Gentoo distribution. |
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cheers |
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regards |
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MM |
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