Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Monday 2022-12-12 18:46, Chris Punches wrote:
But even worse would be, if we would change the path of established upstream projects, like dbus. This would make us just incompatible with the rest of the world without any benefit That's why the FHS standard exists in the first place. It's not up to upstream projects where files go on the system. It is up to the distribution maintainers and packagers to maintain FHS compliance to avoid such issues. https://kubic.opensuse.org/blog/2019-12-05-usr-etc/
That explains it. It looks like SUSE has indeed abandoned the FHS by policy. Sad to hear, as that means standards spread will eventually make it wholly incompatible with the rest of the world, a concern previously expressed by Thorsten Kukuk earlier in the thread as somehow the very justification for standards spread. ! I'm ducking out of SUSE and this will be the last of my participation. I just had to tell a thread full of accomplished linux engineers why open standards are important, after being told that the manpage which cites FHS 3.0 as its source is not FHS. This entire thread is nonsense and you can all do better. I get that standards are hard, but the solution to people not being able to track standards is not to abandon them -- it's to train people to do better and for teams to hold each other accountable.