On Wed, 04 May 2005 11:46:28 -0500 Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Actually, he does have a point. I know a lot of folks gripe that linux | doesn't have any standard FS layout of where files are etc. If | something like this could be implemented, it would make those people a | lot happier.
Well, there's FHS, which we don't follow because it is severely broken in various places. Or we could create our own "Standardised Linux Platform" specification and try to persuade the other distributions to sign up for it. Of course, we'd mandate portage as the package manager. Thing is, it really isn't a problem. Data files go in $(datadir), configuration files go in $(sysconfdir) and so on, and the build system handles the rest. It doesn't matter what $(datadir) is actually defined to be (unless your code really really sucks). -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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