From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8812 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Sep 2003 20:08:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 18333 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2003 20:08:29 -0000 Resent-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:08:37 +0200 Resent-Message-Id: <200309232008.h8NK8bhX022885@utx.utx.cz> X-Authentication-Warning: utx.utx.cz: sb set sender to utx@gentoo.org using -f From: Stanislav Brabec To: aeriksson@fastmail.fm Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20030922063300.8839A40AD@latitude.mynet.no-ip.org> References: <20030922063300.8839A40AD@latitude.mynet.no-ip.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1064344465.13300.17.camel@utx.utx.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Resent-From: Stanislav Brabec Resent-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:08:37 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo vs. the FHS X-Archives-Salt: ab99a29c-21c6-41f8-8013-78a06ad52068 X-Archives-Hash: 5a75d3a52c4b32d85ce43f31c89e64b9 There are other issues, too: 1) /usr/libexec (should not exist, files should be moved to /usr/sbin and/or /usr/lib) 2) /mnt (is reserved for administrator, subdirectories not allowed, mount point for removable media is not yet standardized, will probably be /media) http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27 3) /home/httpd (/home is reserved for users, service home is not yet standardized, will probably be /srv, currently /var/lib or /var is used in other distros, too) Causes big problem on AFS or NFS /home systems (unable to emerge update on client machines; unable to have two webservers in one network, because they are sharing data). 4) /usr/kde and /usr/qt (/usr should not have sub-trees, sub trees are allowed in /opt, i. e. /opt/kde and /opt/kde). 4) /usr/games should be a directory for binaries, not subtree, (i. e. /usr/games/bin -> /usr/games, /usr/games/lib -> /usr/lib, /usr/games/share -> /usr/share/games). 5) /usr/X11R6/share is not in FHS (probably move --datadir to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11) Issues 1, 4 and 5 can "automagically" solve GNU-FHS: ftp://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/utx/fhs/ -- Stanislav Brabec http://www.penguin.cz/~utx -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list