Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

[Tanguy Ortolo <tanguy+debian@ortolo.eu>]

Josh Triplett, 2011-12-30 16:09+0100:
> A de-facto standard has already emerged for how to ship the standard
> configuration in /usr/lib and handle overrides,

I do not think this is a de facto standard at all yet. What pieces of
software use apply it? The length of that list should be compared to the
order of magnitude of something like $(ls -1 /etc | wc -l) on a typical
system before assuming that this has become the standard. The fact that
a given piece of software is new or written by Lennart or whoever does not make its
behaviour standard at all. The existence of a recommendation from IETF,
LSB or XDG does, however.

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