On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 11:43:25AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 09:48:07PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > to modify Debian to work with GNU (and the *BSD port), as the current > > practices in Debian cannot be used in GNU/Hurd! > > Cannot, or just don't want to be? > > Why can't you follow FHS to the letter if you want to? Why don't you CC to debian-hurd or CC him? Maybe he can defend his opinion then. There doesn't exist an OS specific annex for GNU in the FHS. Only for GNU/Linux. It's going to be a problem to follow it then. It's not allowed to add extra directories to / for example, but the system would be unusable without /hurd. For *BSD, libexec is part of their ABI as that's the directory of their loader. The FHS says it's for "UNIX-like operating systems". GNU isn't UNIX-like, you know what the acronym means. It's only POSIX compatible. Other than that, the only OS specific annex is for GNU/Linux. No BSD too. The FHS is just GNU/Linux, nothing more. Don't force it onto other operating systems please. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org IRC ID: jeroen@openprojects GNU supporter - http://www.gnu.org
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