Re: Updating dpkg-cross: file moving question

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

"Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@cs.msu.su> writes:

>> The multiarch and FHS proposals say that ${prefix}/${target}/* would
>> pollute the / and /usr directories while the lib and include subdirs
>> already have tons of files/dirs and the extra dirs won't matter.
>
> I think that following years-old de-facto standard of cross-compilation 
> environment file placing outweights '/usr pollution' argument.
>
> So I think I will keep this as is in dpkg-cross. However, this may change 
> if other arguments will appear in future.

Please contact the FHS people about this. This is best fixed prior to
the FHS multiarch stuff getting used in say SuSe or RH.

MfG
        Goswin