Bug#282067: yes!
> This is a good idea, which has been often discussed on
> freestandards-discuss and fhs-discuss. The problem is that the FHS
> is not going to make a change unless there are reference
> implementations, and Debian adheres to the FHS. Catch 22?
>
> No, it is Debian's job to step ahead and implement this
> (post-sarge). If we find it working and manage to get rid of all
> problems, it will probably make it into the FHS.
Umm.. So if I have an NFS-shared $HOME, that I share between Debian,
various BSDs and commercial Unixes, I'll have to resort to black magic
to get some of my dotfiles appear where they need to, on all of the
systems I'm using them?
Today, most programs Just Work(tm) the same way accross these systems.
You mandate a move to ~/.etc/, and then suddenly, my Debian (and if the
FHS adapts this brain-damage, other GNU/Linux systems) will fail to find
my files. Unless you modifiy each program to search the files at two
locations. I doubt upstream people would be happy to do that.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to read the ugly flamewar an attempt like
this will surely erupt >;]
--
Gergely Nagy
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