On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:55:39 +0100
Fabio Rossi <ross...@inwind.it> wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Marius Mauch wrote:
>
> > Any reason for that? Aesthetics aren't a very compelling argument
> > IMO, and the FHS also seems to favor the current layout (in my
> > interpretation at least, as we're not really talking about
> > "inter-related applications" in technical terms).
>
> I agree with you, there is no technical relation, i.e. those
> applications are stand-alone, but I also think that the "link" is
> their role, they are all used for administrative purposes *inside* a
> Gentoo distribution ("inside" might be the right keyword to justify a
> little deviation from the FHS).
The same could be said about /var/lib/init.d, /var/lib/dhcp,
/var/lib/iptables or several other packages that aren't hosted by
Gentoo. In the other direction, if the packages are eventually used on
other distributions/systems, should they then use another path?
Mind that this only addresses the FHS part of my mail, you haven't
really answered my question: What's the benefit of changing things?
Change for the sake of change is rarely a good idea (unless you work in
PR/marketing ;)
> In the opposite direction, in according to your opinion, I don't see
> a reason to have /var/lib/gentoo/news instead of something
> like /var/lib/gentoo-news.
Right. But retroactively changing GLEP 42 and all affected packages is
a bit much just to avoid a generic "gentoo" directory.
Marius
