On Sunday 17 May 2009 15:55:55 William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 02:57:47PM -0400, Mark Loeser wrote: > > According to FHS we are doing it right: > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLIBVARIABLESTATEINFORMATI > >ON > > > > I guess what I would really like to know is...why does it matter? If > > something is configurable like that, then it should work regardless of > > what is put in. > > I guess it doesn't matter to me really; I was just looking for why we do > it the way we do since one of the brltty devs "strongly recommended" > that we change our build environment.
the GNU guys prefer /var which is why that is also the default. we pick /var/lib because that's how FHS works and it results in a clean /var base tree. not many packages out there will manually split things up. if your package is special and does, then using /var in your ebuild is OK, but most dont. i.e. what we're doing is correct and their strong recommendation is wrong for the default. -mike
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