On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:09:03PM +1000, Edward C. Lang wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 06:57:19PM -0500, Thomas Smith wrote:
> > How about:
> > 
> > The location of all installed files and directories must be compatible with 
> > the
> > Linux Filesystem Heirarchy Standard (FHS), and should be compliant with it,
> > except as noted.  Locations should not comply with the FHS where a 
> > violation is
> > mandated by Debian policy, or would be impractical or unreasonable.
> 
> I don't particularly like the last part of that sentance. Unless it is
> mandated by D-policy, it should comply, right? I don't believe there should be
> a case that isn't in either policy.

That's a good point.  I guess that, since compliance is a `should', there's
an implicit "unless it's unreasonable."

How about:

"The location of all installed files and directories must be compatible with the
Linux Filesystem Heirarchy Standard (FHS), and should be compliant with it,
except where a violation is mandated by Debian policy."


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