From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFB66138F88 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:30:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9940E0C5F; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from michel.telenet-ops.be (michel.telenet-ops.be [195.130.137.88]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BDC0E0C5D for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([94.226.55.127]) by michel.telenet-ops.be with bizsmtp id XoWc1n0072khLEN06oWcCT; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:30:36 +0100 Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:30:10 +0100 From: Tom Wijsman To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-03-11 Message-ID: <20140228133010.39074078@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <531079D9.801@gentoo.org> References: <530F38CB.4090608@gentoo.org> <53106FE4.9080804@gentoo.org> <531079D9.801@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.22; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: db319997-7a9c-451b-9b9c-f416e9a67eed X-Archives-Hash: 1035aa16526d8dff579f13a1f30a9f31 On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:58:17 +0200 Samuli Suominen wrote: > > On 28/02/14 13:15, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > On 02/27/2014 09:08 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> I'm putting the call out there for any agenda items for the next > >> Council meeting, which will be held on March 11, 2014 at 1900 > >> UTC. This is short notice but we got off track because of FOSDEM > >> and we're going to try to get back on track. > >> > >> So far, the only item is final ratification of glep 63 [1]. > > Since it's still a bit cold I'd like to start a nice fire to warm > > us up: > > > > I'd like QA and Council to figure out how much we care about FHS. > > > > My main complaint is some projects (including e.g. systemd and > > apparently now also udev) storing config files in /lib > > and/or /usr/lib. > > > > From FHS' point of view this is totally wrong, config files go > > to /etc Only libraries should be in /lib. > > Wow. > What about libtool .la text files? > What about kernel modules? > What about the genereted modules.* data in /lib/modules/$version/ > which are used in early boot by eg. kmod-static-nodes? > What about the binaries of OpenRC in /lib/rc, they aren't libraries? > And what about vendor modprobe.d files in /lib/modprobe.d? > I could continue this all day. I'm just trying to point out "Only > libraries should be in /lib." is complete bs and does not work. > Does FHS really articulate it the way you said it, "Only libraries > should be in /lib." or was that your own interpretation of it? > > I'm not really expecting an answer as I'm already convinced FHS is so > badly outdated it's sad it doesn't suit > modern systems. > I hope they will catch up at some point. That's like saying a new modern browser which doesn't follow the web standards is to be used to form a new revision of those web standards. Soon supported in a browser near you, later added in the web standards: <marquee> Welcome to Gentoo is Rice, the Volume goes to 11 here. </marquee> -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : TomWij@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D