Hi,
On Fri, Jun 21, Mats Wichmann wrote: > (a) Nobody gives the FHS any particular authority to dictate things, > it's a collection of existing best practices that people agreed were > good to follow. There are no consequences for not following, and no > test suite (there were some FHS-compliance tests in the LSB test suite, > but of course that's a dead project now). (also see note at end) Correct, the FHS is no standard, it is a guideline how things could look like. And as guideline it needs to address current problems, it cannot only document what people did in the past. Else we would never have had a first version, as there was no common best practice before. > (b) there's not really not enough momentum to count on FHS to solve a > problem you're having *now* so don't raise your expectations too high > and make a sensible choice (consider it was about 10 years between 2.3 > and 3.0, and it's been four years since then). The problem is not *now*, the problem was brought up by different people during the last years, the last time 5 years ago. That this was always more or less ignored did lead to the situation today, that everybody is doing something different/incompatible. Which as result leads to the problem, that there can never be a best practice. Which means we have a deadlock here. > Note: the current FHS has carried forward the idea of being relatively > OS-agnostic. There are historical artifacts based on UNIX and *BSD > systems. One thing that's been discussed more than once over the years > is whether there's value to a more current-Linux-centric version, where > maybe some of the historical constraints don't need to be retained? I think the first question would be: who is following the FHS? If this are only Linux distributions, the question is already answered. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect SLES & MicroOS SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Mary Higgins, Sri Rasiah, HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
