On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 03:18:45PM +0200, Michal Schorm wrote: > The FSH standard 3.0 was introduced in 2015. > The changes in FSH 3.0 seem to me as a natural evolution, and > clarification of existing practices after the 2.3 version. > > I believe we should officially adopt the 3.0 version and update the > Fedora Packaging Guidelines text accordingly. > Drop the obsolete paragraphs and review the list of exceptions, where > we consciously want to deviate from the standard.
FHS, even version 3, has mostly missed the evolution of Linux systems that has happened in the last few decades. In particular, it completely missed the usr-merge, and obviously the merge of bin and sbin… Just looking at the contents table, it is full of outdated stuff, it talks about /mnt and /media, without the understanding that *temporary* paths need to go under /run instead of polluting the root file system. *Some* of the stuff in FHS is useful, but the problem is that an average newbee reader has no way to distinguish the obsolete historical approaches and ideas from relevant stuff, they are all stated in the same authoritative voice. Instead of adjusting to this text which is mostly of historical interest, we should just use https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/file-hierarchy.html. Zbyszek -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
