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On Wed, 04 May 2005 11:46:28 -0500 Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o> |
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| Actually, he does have a point. I know a lot of folks gripe that linux |
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| doesn't have any standard FS layout of where files are etc. If |
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| something like this could be implemented, it would make those people a |
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| lot happier. |
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Well, there's FHS, which we don't follow because it is severely broken |
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in various places. Or we could create our own "Standardised Linux |
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Platform" specification and try to persuade the other distributions to |
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sign up for it. Of course, we'd mandate portage as the package manager. |
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Thing is, it really isn't a problem. Data files go in $(datadir), |
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configuration files go in $(sysconfdir) and so on, and the build system |
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handles the rest. It doesn't matter what $(datadir) is actually defined |
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to be (unless your code really really sucks). |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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