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.
>
> Could you please give some links - whom to contact, what better to read 
> before, etc ?

Try

Mithrandir [Tollef Fog Heen] on irc

and

http://www.linuxbase.org/futures/ideas/multiarch/
Matt Taggart <taggart@fc.hp.com>

MfG
        Goswin