Re: FHS's /usr/share/*
I have been using /usr/share for some time now in all my packages, including ones
that were in the slink, release.
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 04:31:31PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
>
> Could sbdy explain me why?
>
> Why would I need to share this static data among several machines? This
> might mave been a concern when dskspace where a problem... Think that this
> breaks the idea of a packaging system too.
>
> And because this breaks the idea of a packaging system (the packaging
> system isn't designed fot this setup), /usr/share is designed for special
> multi-arch custom setups. I think that the whole distribution doesn't need to
> go under this traumatic change just for that. These custom setups coud just
> link /usr/doc to a shareable place.
>
> Don't you realize that is bad for Debian to do such a major change? We are
> doing major changes every single release!
>
>
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