[fhs-discuss] static sharable files

[Jeff Licquia]

On 05/09/2011 05:38 AM, Roger Leigh wrote:
> But all of the existing issues identified by having the separation
> fail to address an even bigger issue: sharing /usr is entirely
> incompatible with a modern package manager, and this has always been
> the case.  See:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/01/msg00152.html

This is true for (most) Linux distributions, but let's not forget that 
the FHS tries to be a standard for UNIX-like filesystems in general, 
including systems like the *BSDs, Solaris, etc.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but we need to be considerate of 
"historical" use cases for some of our older cousins, even if those use 
cases no longer make sense in the Linux context.

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