Ben Collins wrote: > Still, nothing says the FHS will never change, and change is very > difficult with everything doing their own thing. So my argument is still > that a central place describing these locations that the packages query, > is a better thing. This, in addition to my other reasons for this > proposal.
Your idea is hardly a panacea. Look at two of the FHS changes we have been dealing with: /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc and /var/lib/games to /var/games. Even if packages had some trivial way to tell that these directories had changed, that is not good enough; a fair amount of code needs to be added to maintainer scripts to make the upgrade smooth. -- see shy jo
