On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 03:59:35PM +0000, hasufell wrote: *snip*
> Despite that... the answer is already here: > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/filesystem/index.html > > > Gentoo does not consider the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard to be an > > authoritative standard, although much of our policy coincides with > > it. > > So this is not really something the council has to decide on, unless > you propose to change that policy altogether. Agreed. Gentoo has never considered the fhs to be authoritative. It is a guide. If we can follow it we do, if we can't we don't. There is nothing to change here unless you are asking that we make fhs authoritative, which I would be firmly against. Regarding the comments blueness made on -project about the /->/usr merge violating fhs, I have spoken with vapier about this myself on several occasions, and his position is exactly the opposite; it does not violate fhs. You might also want to read this article on osnews about why the split happened; there is definitely interesting information here [1]. The reason the split happened is pretty straight forward, and every other "justification" for continuing it was come up with after the fact. William [1] http://www.osnews.com/story/25556/Understanding_the_bin_sbin_usr_bin_usr_sbin_Split/
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