[fhs-discuss] Merge FHS with BSD filesystem standard?

[Jeff Licquia]

On 05/17/2011 12:04 PM, Julian Fagir wrote:
>> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:47:41PM +0100, Tony Travis wrote:
>> if we want to get BSD people back into the FHS then i think an attempt
>> should be made to merge this into the FHS. at least the non-conflicting
>> parts for start.
>
> this request was already made:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2011-May/011439.html
> The NetBSD-mailing list had a longer discussion about that:
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2011/05/10/msg005050.html

OpenBSD was involved as well:

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=130499860531930&w=4

The conclusion, all around, was that *BSD wasn't interested in the FHS.

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