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Re: Interpreting FHS



On Wednesday 16 January 2002 12:20 pm, Jarno Elonen wrote:
[snip]
> That said, FHS hardly is, if I have understood correctly, "the optimal
> solution" for anything but rather an educated tradeoff between usefulness
> and compatibility with existing UNIX systems. People generally present
> crique because they want things to improve, not because they want to prove
> that someone is imbecile. KDE indeed *is* a very large system and if many
> people feel that FHS or Debian policy are not up to date for desktop usage,
> those issues should be seriously discussed, IMHO.
>

exactly. standards should be a contemporary method of enhancing 
interoperability, not some facist ethic that proscribes discussion of 
improvement.

ben



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