Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:06:35PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
> > > Agreed, but that doesn't change the point. Linux kernel modules
> > > are not libraries but we store them in /lib. We don't need to
> > > store translators in /hurd either.
> >
> > Huh? Are you arguing that:
> >
> > 1) Everything should be put in /lib?
> > 2) Everything that is a kernel module should be in /lib?
> > 3) Those things specified by the FHS should be in /lib?
>
> None of the above, but that Hurd translators don't *need* a new
> top level directory any more than Linux kernel modules do.
This would be to create a crazily high bar to the creation of
directories. FHS practice has never been to create directories only
when there is no other way to construct the system. Posix is
sufficiently flexible that except for the directories explicitly named
in that standard, you can conform to it and have only *ONE* top-level
directory!
In other words, if we should have only top-level directories when we
"*need*" them, then we don't *need* bin, proc, lib, etc, etc, etc.
Thomas
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