Re: multi-platform, FSSTND compliance, and /usr/share/

1998-02-02 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, Yann Dirson wrote: [snip] > > the FHS in Debian 2.1 (at least partially--see below) but stay with FSSTND > > for Debian 2.0. (The changes would be too much to get hamm out in time.) > > implementing FHS would take time, but recommending /usr/share, with > compat links, for

Re: multi-platform, FSSTND compliance, and /usr/share/

1998-02-01 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Lowe) wrote on 30.01.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Yann Dirson wrote: > > [6.3] "no program should ever reference anything in /usr/share." > No clue. Might be becase /usr/share could be shared across different > architectures (hence the name) and ther

Re: multi-platform, FSSTND compliance, and /usr/share/

1998-01-30 Thread Yann Dirson
Christian Schwarz writes: > The FHS fully supports /usr/share and we already have decided to implement Great. > the FHS in Debian 2.1 (at least partially--see below) but stay with FSSTND > for Debian 2.0. (The changes would be too much to get hamm out in time.) implementing FHS would take tim

Re: multi-platform, FSSTND compliance, and /usr/share/

1998-01-30 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Yann Dirson wrote: > > > [6.3] "The directory /usr/share typically contains > > architecture-independent files such as man-pages, timezone, terminfo > > information, etc." > [...] > > As of this time, with Debian going multiplatform, it

Re: multi-platform, FSSTND compliance, and /usr/share/

1998-01-30 Thread Yann Dirson
Will Lowe writes: > On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Yann Dirson wrote: > > > [6.3] "The directory /usr/share typically contains > > architecture-independent files such as man-pages, timezone, terminfo > > information, etc." > [...] > > As of this time, with Debian going multiplatform, it seems we shou

Re: multi-platform, FSSTND compliance, and /usr/share/

1998-01-30 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Yann Dirson wrote: > [6.3] "The directory /usr/share typically contains > architecture-independent files such as man-pages, timezone, terminfo > information, etc." [...] > As of this time, with Debian going multiplatform, it seems we should > push towards using /usr/share wher

multi-platform, FSSTND compliance, and /usr/share/

1998-01-30 Thread Yann Dirson
I just had a look at what FSSTND says about /usr/share: [6.3] "The directory /usr/share typically contains architecture-independent files such as man-pages, timezone, terminfo information, etc." [4.11] "Note that it is the consensus opinion of FSSTND that /usr/share is not needed on the majority