Status and outlook of LSB and FHS compliance of Fedora. -- sed -e g/lsb/fhs/i

[Bryan J. Smith]

Bryan J. Smith _ignorantly_ wrote:
> So, LSB has gone from merely documenting and unifying "best practices" to
> actually creating its own, new standards?  Is it LSB's intent to "de-UNIX"
> Linux and create anew?

Alan Cox wisely corrected:  
> FHS is not an LSB creation. It was an existing body that the LSB chose
> to use as a reference

Oh, my ignorance.  My sincerest apologies to anyone with LSB for this very
grave ignorance of mine.  Thanx for pointing that out Alan (I think I should
shut up for awhile after this post ;-).

So the FHS is behind this?  Is so, my previous post applies to FHS:
  sed -e g/lsb/fhs/i

[ BTW, I read through the FHS bugs on this and I still don't understand it.
And I don't like creating new TLD for user files.  Automounter, /home, /var,
/tmp seem to do their jobs quite nicely IMHO. ]

-- Re-edit: --
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-June/msg00101.html

So, FHS has gone from merely documenting and unifying "best practices" to
actually creating its own, new standards?  Is it FHS's intent to "de-UNIX"
Linux and create anew?

By introducing new TLDs, these seems to be the case.
Why does LFHS wish to create more work for itself and everyone?

<suggestion>
If they want to do anything, they should create a _single_ TLD.
Maybe call it, obviously, /fhs, and then symlink everything
under it (or everything that can be).
</suggestion>

<rant/opinionated>
To give my opinion, this sounds like an entity that has moved from
standardization efforts to justifying itself with classic beaucratic
BS.  And I thought the IEEE was bad at times, at least they try to
minimize impact and involve vendors in such decisions.

I just can't understand why _anyone_ would agree to TLD changes.
Things that go directly against the history of UNIX.  Things that
don't change much.  Are we going to start being like Microsoft where
we change things all the time?

I think UNIX has evolved, while imperfect, better than any other OS.
Things are in Linux out of Darwinism.  Something I think "standards"
that are not written to document/unify "beset practices" but move
people elsewhere to where they "think" they should be are self-
defeating.
</rant/opinionated>

But I am not in a position to offer such opinions.
I have not contributed to the Fedora project in any formal capacity.


-- 
Bryan J. Smith, E.I. -- b.j.smith at ieee.org