From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29684 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Sep 2003 20:58:20 -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 30554 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2003 20:58:19 -0000 From: Caleb Tennis Organization: Gentoo To: Stanislav Brabec , aeriksson@fastmail.fm Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:58:17 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030922063300.8839A40AD@latitude.mynet.no-ip.org> <1064344465.13300.17.camel@utx.utx.cz> In-Reply-To: <1064344465.13300.17.camel@utx.utx.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309231558.17080.caleb@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo vs. the FHS X-Archives-Salt: 5fd67af4-e549-41e8-850f-e6ec04de555f X-Archives-Hash: 96ff791678d4c3f8fd16cfeffeab54ec On Tuesday 23 September 2003 03:08 pm, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > There are other issues, too: I don't understand the logic behind blindly following a document like the FHS. If there are compelling reasons why a directory of installation path is incorrect, then it needs to be addressed. However, I can tell you that 99% of Linux users have multiple directories underneath /mnt (cdrom, hd, usbhd...). This is a violation of the FHS. As far as I can tell, Gentoo only doesn't comply in areas where it made more sense for us to use something different. If installing kde and qt into /opt is most important, why not symlink it there? I guess I just fail to see the advantage of having an "FHS compliant" sticker on the proverbial box when it makes more sense to do things differently. And in some cases, it is only that way to support legacy users who are used to doing things a certain way. I have yet to see an installation that is 100% FHS compliant. I'd say that 97% is pretty darn good. :) Caleb -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list