Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo & fhs

["Miguel S. Filipe" <m3thos@netcabo.pt>]

Collins wrote:

>Just finished a lengthy interchange wih a "gentleman" (loosely
>speaking) on another group this weekend.  Said gentleman considers
>himself to be a chief priest of the fhs religion, and he says that he
>wouldn't touch gentoo with a fork because gnome and kde are in the
>/usr hierarchy instead of the /opt hierarchy "where god intended them
>to be."
>
>Just curious, is he all wet, or is this a conscious departure from the
>fhs requirements?
>
>  
>
I do touch gentoo, but I also would like if gentoo would put those "mega 
apps" (kde and gnome)
in the /opt, I don't know if there is any rule* about this, I just like 
them better in /opt..


Something that might be related to this is the question:
Does gentoo folows the linux standart base? url: http://www.linuxbase.org

*: after looking in google it seems that there exists a supposed standart
File Hierarchy Standart url: http://www.pathname.com/fhs

What do developers and Drobbins think of this, {should,are,must} any of 
this standarts be followed?

Miguel Sousa Filipe
gentoo user in .pt (PORTUGAL)
handle: m3thos
more human than human