Theodore Tso dijo [Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:57:32PM -0500]: > Well, realistically we didn't have very good participation from anyone > other than one or two *BSD folks, and at the time some of the changes > that were made for compatibility with *BSD (and, to be fair, to be > closer to the rest of the Unix world) caused no small amount of > controversy. > > Consider the following thread from debian-devel approximately 8 years > ago (which was about the last time we had any *BSD participation): > (...) > And if it's not going to happen, we shouldn't try to set up > expectations that we would try to change all of Linux just because a > *BSD happened to have chosen a different pathname....
Interesting. And yes, illustrative of the historically (and, should I add, ridiculous? No, I'd better not ;-) ) rivality between Linux and the *BSDs, big egos included. However, Linux's position WRT the commercial Unixes has radically shifted in the last decade. Linux is no longer considered a toy, and is taken seriously into account. So, even with the big inertia that might hamper more than one initiative, perhaps the FHS could be pushed in collaboration with their respective companies? At least, I'd be surprised if -say- the Solaris or HPUX people weren't open to discussion leading to better interoperability. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org