Re: /usr/local again
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Steve Robbins wrote:
>
> > Let's go back and look at the more fundamental question. Why do Debian
> > packages create empty directories in /usr/local? Answer: the Policy
> > allows them to.
>
> And the reason Policy allows this is that the FHS allows this.
No, it does not.
The FHS allows that the following empty stubs may be created:
/usr/local/{bin,games,include,lib,sbin,share,src}
and that's it.
Page 19 of /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/fhs/fhs.dvi.gz.
Cheers,
-Steve
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