On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Marius Mauch wrote: > The same could be said about /var/lib/init.d, /var/lib/dhcp, > /var/lib/iptables or several other packages that aren't hosted by > Gentoo. In the other direction, if the packages are eventually used on > other distributions/systems, should they then use another path?
The path could be configured of course but, again, I see a few chances of having this tools outside gentoo, the proposal is based also on this idea. > Mind that this only addresses the FHS part of my mail, you haven't > really answered my question: What's the benefit of changing things? > Change for the sake of change is rarely a good idea (unless you work in > PR/marketing ;) The main benefit is a cleaner filesystem, I don't know your opinion but I hate to see sparse files around the tree and waste time in discovering their source :-) Moreover IMHO it gives me the impression of a better design. > > In the opposite direction, in according to your opinion, I don't see > > a reason to have /var/lib/gentoo/news instead of something > > like /var/lib/gentoo-news. > > Right. But retroactively changing GLEP 42 and all affected packages is > a bit much just to avoid a generic "gentoo" directory. So we can exploit this condition to collect all gentoo related files inside this dir ;-) Fabio
