Re: Bug#167422: general: files in /usr/share should be world-readable
tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> There is no rule that /usr can always be safely mounted read-only in
> FHS or the GNU Coding Standards. If it works for you, great, but by
> no means would I advise relying on it.
Blech, I was wrong here, for which I apologize. The FHS does contain
such a promise. I believe it shouldn't, but I understand why it does.
All I can say is that the GNU Coding Standards specified a clean and
workable solution, which was ignored by the FHS drafters; then later
when they realized it was important, they kludged the same solution
together in a much less elegant way. Which we are, apparently,
unfortunately, stuck with.
Thomas
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