Re: YaST

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:55:29PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> I'm not familiar enough with the YaST inner workings to know how it
> might manage the differences in file locations because of the Debian
> Policy.

I think anyone who packaged YaST for Debian would have to make it fit
into Debian, not the other way round.

> About the only thing I've ever found in the FHS or SuSE that I really
> liked was the concept of /srv directory for holding file providing
> services.
> 
> Is there any discussion on Debian and introducing /srv?

  $ zcat /usr/share/doc/base-files/changelog.gz | head -n 3
  base-files (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
  
    * Added /srv, /media and /usr/local/share/man (Closes: #230909).

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]