Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: information on localstatedir

2009-05-17 Thread Mark Loeser
William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org said: I was told by the brltty developers that localstatedir should be /var. I noticed, however, that econf passes --localstatedir=/var/lib to the configure script. The way around this was to pass the --localstatedir option to econf. According to FHS we are

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: information on localstatedir

2009-05-17 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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#VARLIBVARIABLESTATEINFORMATION I guess what I would really like to know is...why does it matter? If

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: information on localstatedir

2009-05-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
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

[gentoo-dev] rfc: information on localstatedir

2009-05-16 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, I just submitted a patch today to fix an issue with brltty and it was partially accepted. The part of it that wasn't accepted is what brings me to this list. I was told by the brltty developers that localstatedir should be /var. I noticed,