On Thursday 01 of January 2009 22:03:55 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > No, FHS is not the most commonly used layout. The traditional Unix > layout is the most commonly used layout.
So.. why not blindly use Unix layout everywhere instead (for Gentoo news as well) On Thursday 01 of January 2009 22:37:28 Alistair Bush wrote: > I actually agreed with Ciaran on this point. especially seeing I would > like us to follow the parts of LSB that make sense within the Gentoo > ecosystem. (take Init Script Actions as an possible example > http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-ge >neric/iniscrptact.html). So, you agree with Mr Ciaran on that FHS is silly or on blindly following *every* LSB standard being silly? Great, but I wasn't suggesting any of this, I just suggested to pick any standard (most commonly used in Gentoo already), and *only one* and blindly follow it to avoid inconsistency. In such scenario, please elaborate what is your point really. >> It's not the point to blindly follow freedesktop or LSB - the point is to >> consistently follow one standard across whole distribution - if it's FHS >> - fine, if not - fine as well - but *only one* at a time. > > That being said I'd rather propose to force Gentoo news to comply to >> FHS as FHS is the most commonly used file/directory layout in Gentoo. > This really is bikeshedding...... Isn't consistently following a > standard also blindly following it. So when you ask us to consistently > follow FHS why not ask for us to blindly follow it. > Man this is getting boring. Yes, you're right. Let everyone follow his own standards - everyone likes spaghetti afterall... (just look at eclasses/ebuilds in you're uncertain) No, it's not bikeshedding, it's misunderstanding the sentence. Consistently following *some* standard is blindly following *the same* standard, but consistently following *some standard* is *not* blindly following LSB nor is blindly following FHS. See the difference? So to make it all clear once again and for the last time - I would rather propose to force Gentoo news to comply to existing the most commonly used file/directory hierarchy structure in Gentoo distribution. cheers -- regards MM
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