On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 03:57:47PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Branden Robinson wrote: > > Ian Jackson doesn't like it, and he carries a lot of clout around here. > > (Deservedly so, but I don't really know the reasons for his objections to > > FHS -- IIRC, he doesn't like all the subdirectories of /var that the FHS > > includes). > > He discovered that he would need to move the dpkg database to another > location with the FHS. And that is *not* something that you want to do > unless oyu really really have no other option. Well, we could concievably follow the FHS in every other respect, though, right? From a standards-compliance point-of-view, it's less egregious to have an extra directory in /var (/var/lib) than to fail to have directories the FHS says should be there. Are there any other problems with migrating to the FHS? For potato X I'm hoping to infest the X packages with more symlinks into /var (see the X Strike Force page). -- G. Branden Robinson | To stay young requires unceasing Debian GNU/Linux | cultivation of the ability to unlearn branden@ecn.purdue.edu | old falsehoods. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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