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.
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