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On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:58:23 +0200, pk wrote: |
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> organisation and I happen to be on the side which thinks the FHS |
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> rationalisation for /bin, /sbin, /lib is a neat one. Others thinks the |
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> neatest solution is to put everything into one directory (whatever that |
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> may be) and that's fine too, if there was a choice... |
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I'm in favour of /bin and /lib, and I see the pros and cons of /sbin and |
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am not too bothered about how that is done. But having two (or more) of |
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each of these is an artificial mess that is a solution to a problem that |
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ceased to exist decades ago. |
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> As for what Neil Bothwick said: |
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> >According to Greg K-H, who I tend to trust, this did not come from Red |
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> >Hat. It's just that a couple of the devs are employed by them. Others |
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> >are not. |
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> Redhat are in control (maintaining or main contributor) of a whole lot |
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> of core software: |
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> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_contributions#Upstream_Focus |
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> So maybe it's in their (Redhats) best interest to only support their way |
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> of doing things? Or it may be that the devs themselves are so "tight" |
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> that they are working in this direction on their own accord. Or maybe |
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> it's all coincidental... |
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Red Hat employ devs working on many aspects of Linux, and we should be |
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grateful for this (or do you prefer the Ubuntu approach of taking with |
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little giving back?). One of the reasons Greg K-H left SUSE to work for |
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the Linux Foundation was so that he could be completely |
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distro-independent. AFAIK he has never worked for Red Hat. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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