Amen to that. ;)
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Mark Burgess <mark.burg...@iu.hio.no> wrote: > > The FHS gets thrown in my face from time to time (see the FAQ) but what > folks don't seem to realize is that is is just a collection of pretty ad > hoc selections of common usage discovered by some random people, and a > declaration of intent to not make the variety of conventions any worse. > A few special programs (like mail daemons etc) irregular practices have > been taken as definitive for no good reason on top of regular patterns > like /usr, but its is all very arbitrary. > > Cfengine was written before the FHS, from the days when diskless > workstations were all the rage and /var and /tmp were the only private > areas. So I thought: keep is simple. No good deed goes unpunished. > > I see no reason to change a reasonable convention for a problematic one, > simply because a wanton gang of ad hoc law-makers rode into town on the > back of their (probably camels) waving their Linux Bibles. ;-) > > There, I said it! :-) > > On 02/04/2011 08:53 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Jesse Becker <becker...@mail.nih.gov> wrote: >>> >>> Theoretically, Linux systems should use the FHS: >>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ >>> >> >> Great link, thanks, Jesse! I will check this out. >> >> Please do be aware that Cfengine runs on many Unix systems, not only Linux. >> >> One of the unique characteristics of Cfengine compared to other open source >> configuration management tools, that it runs on the widest variety of >> Unix-like >> operating systems and even Windows. >> >> Best, >> -at >> _______________________________________________ >> Help-cfengine mailing list >> Help-cfengine@cfengine.org >> https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
