On Mon, 09 May 2011 23:22:30 -0400 Jeff Licquia <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/09/2011 05:38 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: > > But all of the existing issues identified by having the separation > > fail to address an even bigger issue: sharing /usr is entirely > > incompatible with a modern package manager, and this has always been > > the case. See: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/01/msg00152.html > > This is true for (most) Linux distributions, but let's not forget > that the FHS tries to be a standard for UNIX-like filesystems in > general, including systems like the *BSDs, Solaris, etc. I wonder if we should look at what hurd/gnu say about filesystem layout. One thing i noticed last night was [1] a bug about having libexecdir. Apparently fedora makes an fhs exception for this directory, and its recommended by the gnu coding standard. [1] http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101 thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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