From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28394 invoked by uid 1002); 24 Sep 2003 07:19:11 -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 9479 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2003 07:19:11 -0000 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:18:22 +0200 From: Sven Vermeulen To: gentoo-dev List Message-ID: <20030924071822.GB1393@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev List References: <20030922063300.8839A40AD@latitude.mynet.no-ip.org> <200309231558.17080.caleb@gentoo.org> <200309232312.05766.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <1064362874.10322.90.camel@rattus.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1UWUbFP1cBYEclgG" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1064362874.10322.90.camel@rattus.localdomain> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.20 X-Telephone: +32 486 460306 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo vs. the FHS X-Archives-Salt: 8c436828-4a95-4436-a33e-7be06d3eef6d X-Archives-Hash: b1fbf084ae0943a06a4f0eead6b00f66 --1UWUbFP1cBYEclgG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:21:14AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > As someone who works with a number of different OS's daily, from solaris > to various flavours of linux - the FHS and standards compliance is a > godsend. The FHS has a few warts, and slavish compliance with it is not > desired, but generally, it is a "good thing". Just because commercial > apps use it, doesnt mean its bad for everyone else, they just benefit > too. I totally agree. The FHS is not only a nice standard (even though I see why some distributions don't follow it 100%) it also is a nice document to explain users why and how a Linux system is structured.=20 And it's not like the FHS is static, it has changed several times and with good pro/con references they will change the standard accordingly. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen --=20 ^__^ And Larry saw that it was Good. (oo) Sven Vermeulen (__) http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo Documentation Project --1UWUbFP1cBYEclgG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/cUU+Xfqz7M26L9sRAlAlAKCPeQPlcfMhZCT4rNTMV3n2UpYJEQCcCvUD qphRt9khAWCpreOjBoMKU4U= =TiV0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1UWUbFP1cBYEclgG--