On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:11:57PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes: > > > So, in that regard, the translators can exist anywhere, not only in /hurd. > > Of course. But we're designing a system. To quote ftpusers: if you > want to help, help. Sniping doesn't help. Sniping people who want to help don't make people keeping wanting to do that. I have it will be learned sometime. > And actually understanding the system is a pre-requisite for helping. > Sorry, but that's just the way it is. I pretty well do that, although I'm not perfect and I *want* to be corrected if I would be wrong. > Now if you want to point out that FHS doesn't mention /hurd and so > using it is in violation of FHS, then you are quite right. No, then he's wrong. I don't know about your copy of the FHS, but mine (version 2.2 dated May 23, 2001) doesn't forbid a distribution to add directory. It's just interesting to see that nobody has even noticed this, but of course I'm the clueless flamebait here, it's just that I have read the FHS carefully more than once while writing that GNU/Hurd specific annex and checking where Debian GNU/Hurd differs from the FHS at the moment. It's not that I don't know where I am talking about. I suggest people should read it carefully before trying to discuss these things and then they will even find out that it's amateurish and confusing like hell. Don't try to even try to reply without reading it carefully as I'm not going to waste time anymore teaching somebody to read. Keeping in mind that the FHS is a document written for proprietary third-party LSB packages and it specifies what those packages can find where and where they should install things helped me a lot with understanding it. Also that the standard is created by just looking at current practice and writing down their thoughts about it. I doubt they even thought about this why filesystems exist and why directories exist. > Now, since we all know these two facts, and since the Debian GNU/Hurd > team knows these two facts, and since the relevant people are all > working to make sure that the Debian GNU/Hurd port does match policy, > can we just move on, ignore Jeroen, and do some real work? I don't care whether somebody ignores me or not, I know I am right. I have an opinion too and I will say that until my death. Anyway, it's just useless trying to convince people on debian-devel that they are wrong because they don't want to listen anyhow. Jeroen Dekkers Who rather writes his own policy than caring about Debian policy -- Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org IRC ID: jeroen@openprojects GNU supporter - http://www.gnu.org
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