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At 2005-03-21T14:16:12+0200, Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:53 +0000, Carlos Silva wrote: |
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> > If we are going to follow the FHS standards |
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> We do not follow FHS as such, but rather we agree to do things |
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> according to the FHS where they are sane, and suite our purpose (think |
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> /usr/kde which is really not FHS complaint). |
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Or /usr/portage, which is also not really FHS compliant. |
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Wonderful thing about standards in the technical community. There's no |
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way to force them on an unwilling populace, so the stupid ones just die |
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(e.g. /srv, /media). Good ideas like clearing all the effluvia out of |
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/usr/* and /var/* sometimes survive. |
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Bravo, btw, to those who wrestled /usr/X11R6 into a compatibility |
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symlink, even though the FHS makes an exception and allows it. |
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Personally, I'd like to see some consistency in the "home directory" of |
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services. I can accept the point of those who disagree with creating |
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/srv in order to accomplish that, though. There are plenty of other |
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places to which services can be shuffled. /var/{cache,lib,spool} and |
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/home work great. Generally, I don't have a problem with whatever the |
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devs decide, as long as I can correct it to my own tastes in the |
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configuration. |
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-- |
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Batou: Hey, Major... You ever hear of "human rights"? |
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Kusanagi: I understand the concept, but I've never seen it in action. |
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--Ghost in the Shell |
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