On Mon, Dec 12, Chris Punches wrote:
That is absolutely not the case: The manpage you are referencing is literally a copy of the FHS 3 standard, cites the FHS 3.0 standard as its source, and claims to be intended to be conformant to it.
Please read your cited manpage as you are misinforming anyone who might be reading your incorrect statements here that doesn't know better already.
I have no idea why you think the whole stuff is incompatible to FHS, but it looks like you should read it yourself again: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard) "/etc - Host-specific system-wide configuration files." So every configuration file, which get's installed in /etc and you did never modify, is clearly not host specific and is violating FHS ;) Our approach (and the one of upstream projects) is fully FHS conform in this regard, as /etc should only contain host specific configuration files (like /etc/fstab) and admin made changes (which are also host specific). That the FHS is dead since many years and the "current maintainers" refuse to update it to todays needs does not make it easier. Which means, strictly spoken, there is no single Linux distribution out there following to 100% the FHS. That's just impossible if you don't want to miss all new development of the last decade. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect, Future Technologies SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Frankenstraße 146, 90461 Nuernberg, Germany Managing Director: Ivo Totev, Andrew Myers, Andrew McDonald, Martje Boudien Moerman (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)