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On Tuesday 23 September 2003 22:08, Stanislav Brabec wrote: |
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> There are other issues, too: |
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> |
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> 1) |
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> /usr/libexec (should not exist, files should be moved to /usr/sbin |
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> and/or /usr/lib) |
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File bugs against the applications that do this. The files get there because |
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the installation makefiles put them there. /usr/sbin is not good as they are |
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not supposed to be run by users, but /usr/lib could be reasonable. But try to |
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first ask upstream why the packages use libexec. Some might have good |
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reasons, for others it solves the problem for others than gentoo. |
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> 2) |
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> /mnt (is reserved for administrator, subdirectories not allowed, mount |
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> point for removable media is not yet standardized, will probably be |
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> /media) |
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> http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27 |
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rmdir /mnt/* |
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and create the /media, or wait until the standard is there |
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> |
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> 3) |
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> /home/httpd (/home is reserved for users, service home is not yet |
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> standardized, will probably be /srv, currently /var/lib or /var is used |
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> in other distros, too) |
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> Causes big problem on AFS or NFS /home systems (unable to emerge update |
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> on client machines; unable to have two webservers in one network, |
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> because they are sharing data). |
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> |
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This is being addressed, and will go to /var as we cannot work with probably |
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> 4) |
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> /usr/kde and /usr/qt (/usr should not have sub-trees, sub trees are |
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> allowed in /opt, i. e. /opt/kde and /opt/kde). |
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/opt is binary only. We have qt and kde from source, and they are also not |
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that well self-contained. If the FHS people create a good solution for this |
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we will be happy to use it, but /usr is not an option as it stops the ability |
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to have paralel versions. |
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> 4) |
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> /usr/games should be a directory for binaries, not subtree, (i. e. |
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> /usr/games/bin -> /usr/games, /usr/games/lib -> /usr/lib, |
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> /usr/games/share -> /usr/share/games). |
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> 5) |
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> /usr/X11R6/share is not in FHS (probably move --datadir to |
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> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11) |
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Unfortunatly things still need to work. People expect XFree to be installed |
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where it allways installs. That includes /usr/X11R6/share |
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> Issues 1, 4 and 5 can "automagically" solve GNU-FHS: |
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> ftp://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/utx/fhs/ |
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The main point of the distribution is to be maintainer friendly and before |
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that to run well. This means that at some points we need to be flexible |
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enough to create solutions that are not offered by the FHS. Especially when |
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it does not offer good alternatives. That means that FHS compliance, while |
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desirable allways comes second to the costs needed to be compliant. This is |
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especially true in the many vague areas of the FHS (that even FHS zealots |
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cannot agree on). |
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Paul |
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-- |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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