On Monday 2012-08-06 07:22, Zachary Harris wrote:

>1) "Applications may use a single subdirectory under /usr/lib." Does
>this mean that a subdirectory of /usr/lib should not contain
>further/deeper subdirectories?

A single directory in the /usr/lib(exec) level. What it does in 
/usr/lib(exec)/myapp is up to the package.

>2) How about /lib and /lib<qual>---are essential libraries supposed to
>live directly in them, or is it OK to have /lib/security/pam_access.so
>and /lib/xtables/libip6t_ah.so, for example?

pam_access and libip6t_ah are not essential libraries, but plugins that 
are specific to a certain program, and where it does not make sense for 
casual programs to link(DT_NEEDED-type) against them.

>4) I'm working on a package to check a system for FHS compliance (at
>least partially) and to fix issues of non-compliance (at least
>partially). Is there already such a thing out there?

I know of openSUSE having added an FHS check to their rpmlint package..
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