From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j44GtSID031002 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 16:55:28 GMT Received: from [62.254.189.226] (helo=snowdrop) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DTN9r-00049J-KA for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 16:55:35 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop) by snowdrop with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTN9M-0001y7-OP for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 17:55:04 +0100 Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 17:55:02 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo could become certified for IBM Server Hardware Message-ID: <20050504175502.6796851a@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <4278FC64.3080705@gentoo.org> References: <200505041817.53353.m.debruijne@hccnet.nl> <20050504172658.072076f0@snowdrop> <4278FC64.3080705@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Message-Flag: It's a feature, not a bug Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Signature_Wed__4_May_2005_17_55_02_+0100_O9.CHaTLyuB/7eNF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 X-Archives-Salt: 5e2d64b7-a8e3-4407-aa93-d909bd955580 X-Archives-Hash: dfb01f8e914e82c6fd0c586c8855e927 --Signature_Wed__4_May_2005_17_55_02_+0100_O9.CHaTLyuB/7eNF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 04 May 2005 11:46:28 -0500 Lance Albertson wrote: | Actually, he does have a point. I know a lot of folks gripe that linux | doesn't have any standard FS layout of where files are etc. If | something like this could be implemented, it would make those people a | lot happier. Well, there's FHS, which we don't follow because it is severely broken in various places. Or we could create our own "Standardised Linux Platform" specification and try to persuade the other distributions to sign up for it. Of course, we'd mandate portage as the package manager. Thing is, it really isn't a problem. Data files go in $(datadir), configuration files go in $(sysconfdir) and so on, and the build system handles the rest. It doesn't matter what $(datadir) is actually defined to be (unless your code really really sucks). --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Wed__4_May_2005_17_55_02_+0100_O9.CHaTLyuB/7eNF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCeP5o96zL6DUtXhERAn7GAJ99Jy3tKohIN8UVs0rzycwWgdCQiwCfZlKV UdoX2dIwJznBhuKcMw5AZhs= =hgv6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Wed__4_May_2005_17_55_02_+0100_O9.CHaTLyuB/7eNF-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list