Re: New filesystem standard - do we want it ?

[Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>]

On 27 Oct 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:

> schwarz@monet.m.isar.de (Christian Schwarz)  wrote on 26.10.97 in <Pine.LNX.3.96.971026165313.8321E-100000@monet>:
> 
> > Here is an incomplete list of changes that would produce lots of work:
> >
> >    /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc        (this affects _every_ package!)
> >    /usr/man -> /usr/share/man
> >    /usr/dict -> /usr/share/dict
> >    /usr/info -> /usr/share/info
> 
> However, we will want to do this sooner or later anyway, for the same  
> reason BSD did it: better sharing of file systems over the net.

Please don't get me wrong: I like the FHS! But we can't implement it for
Debian 2.0 (hamm) and keep the current dead line. 


Thanks,

Chris

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