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On Wednesday 31 of December 2008 17:28:09 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:21:45 +0100 |
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> Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@××××××.fm> wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 31 of December 2008 16:57:12 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > > Gentoo does not comply with the FHS. It was established a long time |
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> > > ago that FHS is considered silly and any compliance is merely |
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> > > because the FHS people somehow managed to avoid screwing that |
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> > > particular area up. |
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> > Well, we're not here to deliberate about people's taste in FHS |
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> > silliness manner. FHS, being standard de-facto, following the |
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> > definition of the word "standard" as something accepted by majority |
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> > and thus promised to be respected. Not justified standard violations |
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> > or justified by "I don't like it" or "It's silly" should be repressed |
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> > and some good standards should be explicitly forced in my opinion. |
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> > Otherwise, inconsistency will create the feel of mess. I believe we |
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> > can agree on this. |
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> You could use the same argument to say "Gentoo must switch to RPM |
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> because LSB says so". |
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No, I would be invalid argumentation - I know it - you know it, so let's not |
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continue with discussion of this kind until one side will EOT seeing it's |
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pointless, while the other side will secretly announce epic victory ;) |
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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 FHS as |
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FHS is the most commonly used file/directory layout in Gentoo. |
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cheers in new year |
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regards |
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MM |
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