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On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Duncan wrote: |
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> Except that... in theory, some or all of those apps could technically be |
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> used on/for other distributions and platforms as well. |
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Yes, this is the theory but I think they'll be never ported to other |
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distributions. |
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> Few/none of the other apps, regardless of which distribution they started |
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> on, are in directories based on distribution name, I don't believe it |
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> fits FHS (as genone pointed out), and while there may be reasons to break |
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> standards on occasion, they need to be pretty good to justify the hassle |
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> and confusion, and frankly, I just don't see this as being that good. |
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Honestly the current situation is a little confused, this is the reason of my |
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proposal. Until those applications are used *only* inside gentoo I wouldn't |
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bother about FHS because it has been thought to uniform the filesystem |
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between all the distribution on the market and this makes sense when you have |
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*common* application installed. |
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> Portage is certainly a candidate for other distributions/platforms, and |
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> eselect and genkernel (I guess that's what owns module-rebuild?) could be |
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> as well, particularly on Gentoo based distributions. |
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module-rebuild is a standalone package supported also by linux-mod.eclass. Its |
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purpose is the recompilation of modules after a kernel upgrade. It's also |
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true that this utility might be substituted (with portage 2.1.6.4) with |
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$(emerge /lib/modules). |
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> Herdstat doesn't appear to be in the Gentoo tree any longer, so that can |
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> be eliminated from the list. |
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Yes, you're right. |
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> Even the one that's currently under gentoo, enews, arguably doesn't |
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> belong there, since I see files from other overlays there, and some |
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> overlays are independent and may be in fact ultimately targeted primarily |
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> at distributions other than Gentoo. |
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I suppose that someone was thinking about collecting all gentoo related files |
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in a common place when /var/lib/gentoo/news was introduced. |
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Fabio |