From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: dams@idm.fr
Cc: Caleb Tennis <caleb@gentoo.org>,
Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>,
aeriksson@fastmail.fm, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo vs. the FHS
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:32:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1064374345.24722.267.camel@ht.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m24qz3duhy.fsf@krotkine.idm.fr>
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On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 16:12, dams@idm.fr wrote:
> FHS is made so that f*cking proprietary application get well installed on every
> distribution, so that they can sell more, and make the big linux actors (IBM
> and co), more rich.
>
> If you agree with this way to let linux go forward (I have no opinion on that),
> then be FHS compliant. It's certain that being FHS compliant is a plus when
> dealing with proprietary software companies.
I think you may be confusing FHS with LSB. FHS is actually a decent stab
at standardizing the filesystem hierarchy. However, it is not perfect
and cannot address every possible issue. But it is a good general
guideline.
Sincerely,
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-24 3:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-22 6:32 [gentoo-dev] gentoo vs. the FHS aeriksson
2003-09-23 20:08 ` Stanislav Brabec
2003-09-23 20:26 ` Matt Chorman
2003-09-23 20:58 ` Caleb Tennis
2003-09-23 22:12 ` dams
2003-09-23 23:11 ` Luke-Jr
2003-09-24 0:21 ` William Kenworthy
2003-09-24 3:33 ` Daniel Robbins
2003-09-24 7:18 ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-09-24 1:08 ` Kevin Lacquement
2003-09-24 7:20 ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-09-24 3:32 ` Daniel Robbins [this message]
2003-09-23 21:26 ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-09-24 14:21 ` splite-gentoo
2003-09-24 18:10 ` Stanislav Brabec
2003-09-24 2:37 ` Mike Frysinger
2003-09-24 3:35 ` Daniel Robbins
2003-09-29 3:47 ` Mike Frysinger
2003-09-29 15:18 ` Luke-Jr
2003-09-30 12:59 ` Stuart Herbert
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