(I have cc'ed this mail to Daniel Quinlan, the FHS coordinator.)
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Unless the GNU System also wants to make the leap of eliminating either
> /usr, or /bin and /sbin, it's necessary to use (or at least imply the
> use of) "--prefix=/" to install packages as first-class native system
> components.
>
> prefix=/usr is the normal way to install packages as first-class
> native system components. That puts the executable in /usr/bin, which
> is the normal place for a first-class native system component. On
> my machine, there are 66 files in /bin and over 1200 in /usr/bin.
Debian GNU/Linux and many other distributions of GNU/Linux follow the
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. The FHS was adopted as Debian policy
last year, after it was proposed on debian-devel by Julian Gilbey:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch3.html#s3.1
The groff source version of FHS 2.1 is available from
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.1-source.tar.gz
Perhaps you could address/clearify this in the GNU Coding Standards?
-- Ole
