[fhs-discuss] static sharable files

Karl Goetz karl at kgoetz.id.au
Tue May 10 22:45:00 PDT 2011


On Mon, 09 May 2011 23:22:30 -0400
Jeff Licquia <licquia at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> 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 wonder if we should look at what hurd/gnu say about filesystem
layout. One thing i noticed last night was [1] a bug about having
libexecdir. Apparently fedora makes an fhs exception for this
directory, and its recommended by the gnu coding standard.

[1] http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101
thanks,
kk

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