* Colin Watson writes: > Looking at version 2.2 at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/, section 3.1, it > explicitly says that "software must never create or require special > files or subdirectories in the root directory", over and above those > specified in the standard. As a result, my reading suggests that > distributions including such software aren't compliant with the current > version of the FHS. Which part are you looking at?
I think the key word here is "software", the FHS is a bit vague about this, does it mean third-party software? Which is what I think Jeroen is reading it as. In that case there would not be an violation against the FHS. The FHS only requires what directories have to be in /. Not what directories one might add for the whole system to use. To quote section 3.2: The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, are required in /. <list of required directories> And if this is not the case, i.e. that software here means the whole system. Then Debian does not follow those rules by having /cdrom and /floppy and by not having /opt AFAIK. :) Cheers, -- Alfred M. Szmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]