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Re: FHS - transition



Santiago Vila writes ("Re: FHS - transition"):
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> I strongly disagree. In fact, I see this as a contradiction to your
> earlier post, in which you said: "no `flag day', no moving everything at
> once".

I think you've missed my point(s) rather.

No flag day means having everything work with old and new versions of
code.  It doesn't necessarily mean having everything spread all over
the user's disk during the transition, unless we can't help it.

> We have discussed this before, but it seems that you missed the discussion
> at all: If man and info are modified so that they support both old and new
> locations, we will not have to symlink anything, and we will not need to
> copy a lot of files from a directory to another one. Just upgrade packages
> incrementally and the ones being FHS-compliant will have already the files
> in /usr/share.

This will mean that in order to read manpages from new packages it
will be necessary for the user to use a new manpage program.  This is
precisely the kind of incompatibility I want to avoid.

My scheme works fine if you don't want to copy things.  We can just
leave them in the old place, with a symlink, forever, if we want.

Ian.


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