On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 10:17:07AM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > such reasoning could > > be like this: "/usr/sbin/init.d/ is right because it is a binary that is not > > boot-essential and not used by any user." > > so what about /var/lib? (another directory I don't fully understand the > reasoning behind; I'm just throwing this out as an idea).
Yeah, go figure. If you do one thing wrong it is straightforward to do another thing equally wrong. In my /var/lib here is not a single library, and of course variable libraries don't make sense at all. This is why the FHS 2.2 says: /var/lib: Variable state information And of course, this directory should be called "/var/state", and nothing else. It seems to me they tried to do the right thing in 2.0 with this but backed off again because no distributions followed them. So the FHS is docuenting existing breakage here. Distributions of GNU/Linux did not manage to make the transition. Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
