Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/11/11 07:17, Rüdiger Meier wrote:

> There is a "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard" 

here we go with this bunch of papers and nice theory...

> where admins, users and 
> developers can read about where to find or where to put files.
> Old standards may not be entirely perfect forever but they are required
> keep things transparent specially for people who _have_ learned it 
> already.
> Reading Poettering's email "Hey there, today we have /run" is absolutely 
> the opposite of a doing things straightforward and transparent.

There is no conflict with the FHS, it doesn't forbid distributions to
create their own top level directories, it asks for notification of the
changes to a (dead) bugtracker/list

> How/where exactly opensuse has _made_ that decision? I've missed it.

People who write code and deals with bugs and the consequences have to
take decisions, in this case it was agreed among all major distributions.

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