On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Duncan wrote: > Except that... in theory, some or all of those apps could technically be > used on/for other distributions and platforms as well.
Yes, this is the theory but I think they'll be never ported to other distributions. > Few/none of the other apps, regardless of which distribution they started > on, are in directories based on distribution name, I don't believe it > fits FHS (as genone pointed out), and while there may be reasons to break > standards on occasion, they need to be pretty good to justify the hassle > and confusion, and frankly, I just don't see this as being that good. Honestly the current situation is a little confused, this is the reason of my proposal. Until those applications are used *only* inside gentoo I wouldn't bother about FHS because it has been thought to uniform the filesystem between all the distribution on the market and this makes sense when you have *common* application installed. > Portage is certainly a candidate for other distributions/platforms, and > eselect and genkernel (I guess that's what owns module-rebuild?) could be > as well, particularly on Gentoo based distributions. module-rebuild is a standalone package supported also by linux-mod.eclass. Its purpose is the recompilation of modules after a kernel upgrade. It's also true that this utility might be substituted (with portage 2.1.6.4) with $(emerge /lib/modules). > Herdstat doesn't appear to be in the Gentoo tree any longer, so that can > be eliminated from the list. Yes, you're right. > Even the one that's currently under gentoo, enews, arguably doesn't > belong there, since I see files from other overlays there, and some > overlays are independent and may be in fact ultimately targeted primarily > at distributions other than Gentoo. I suppose that someone was thinking about collecting all gentoo related files in a common place when /var/lib/gentoo/news was introduced. Fabio
