On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:21:45 +0100 Maciej Mrozowski <reave...@poczta.fm> wrote: > On Wednesday 31 of December 2008 16:57:12 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Gentoo does not comply with the FHS. It was established a long time > > ago that FHS is considered silly and any compliance is merely > > because the FHS people somehow managed to avoid screwing that > > particular area up. > > Well, we're not here to deliberate about people's taste in FHS > silliness manner. FHS, being standard de-facto, following the > definition of the word "standard" as something accepted by majority > and thus promised to be respected. Not justified standard violations > or justified by "I don't like it" or "It's silly" should be repressed > and some good standards should be explicitly forced in my opinion. > Otherwise, inconsistency will create the feel of mess. I believe we > can agree on this.
You could use the same argument to say "Gentoo must switch to RPM because LSB says so". -- Ciaran McCreesh
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