Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" wrote: > > > > Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > The changes here for the GNU Coding Standards (which I'm proposing, > > > > and RMS has now agreed to) will not add any new paths, it will simply > > > > change some that currently exist. > > > Eventually. Packages do not spring into compliance instantaneously. > > If what is happening is that currently named destination directories > are given new FHS-blessed destinations, my sincerest hope would be that > packages would not need to change at all. It would be an auto???? tool + > installer (sysadmin) issue that I get to stay out of.
Packages that use an auto???? tool would need to start using the new tool and be re-released. And GNU packages are not required to use auto???? tools anyhow.