On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 09:45:42PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sat, 18 May 2002, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > It's useful to have such a standard, that's why it's specified in the > > GNU Coding Standard. I don't think the FHS is a good standard > > however. The fact is that the loader in *BSD is in libexec and that's > > part of the ABI. It isn't in GNU/Hurd, I don't know why, maybe to be > > compatible with GNU/Linux or for some other reason. > > Why not just use /libexec, for hurd, and be done with it? Why force the rest > of Debian to require use of it? As I understand it, that's all they're asking for. But Debian Policy says "follow the FHS", and {/usr,}/libexec doesn't. And some non-Hurd Debian developers are sufficiently enamored of the concept of Policy as universally applicable without exception that it feels like anti-Hurd discrimination to some people. That's the scorecard as far as I've been able to discern, anyway. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | De minimis non curat lex. branden@debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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