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On Wednesday 12 November 2008 23:11:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> why? the FHS is a stupid standard. Why is following stupid standards a good |
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> thing? What next? LSB compliance - because it is great to be broken by |
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> definition? |
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Why is FHS stupid? I haven't read it fully since 2006 but at the time it was completely sensible to me. Stuff ends up in predictable sensible places that you can rely on. |
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The one thing it did not mention explicitly was funky things like gentoo SLOTs or /usr/kde/ |
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But, FHS itself already tells you how to do it conceptually: just follow the lead of /usr/local/ and do the exact same thing somwhere else. |
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The most impressive part was laying out exactly what kind of things you should expect to find in |
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/usr |
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/usr/local |
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/opt |
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~/bin |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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