]] Jeff Licquia 

Hi,

| On 05/09/2011 05:38 AM, Roger Leigh wrote:
| > But all of the existing issues identified by having the separation
| > fail to address an even bigger issue: sharing /usr is entirely
| > incompatible with a modern package manager, and this has always been
| > the case.  See:
| >
| > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/01/msg00152.html
| 
| This is true for (most) Linux distributions, but let's not forget that 
| the FHS tries to be a standard for UNIX-like filesystems in general, 
| including systems like the *BSDs, Solaris, etc.

While that's a noble goal, has any of them chosen to adopt the FHS or at
least parts of it?  The FHS work was started in 1996, and if none of the
BSDs (or Solaris) have indicated interest since then, perhaps it's time
to drop trying to make them adopt it?

regards,
-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
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