Conflict between GNU CS and FHS

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 22:58 +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:

> That corner case operating system is used world wide, and you (I
> assume so by your email address) work for a company that produces a
> variant of the GNU system.  So it isn't presumptious at all, on the
> contrary...

Based on this information, since Linux uses /usr, and it is not
presumptious to assume that we should not be using /usr, all packages
storing files in /usr are hereby in violation of all of the Fedora
Extras Packaging guidelines.

That's assuming that the Fedora Extras Packaging guidelines stated that
the GNU CS was to be followed. Which it most certainly does not.

I believe that the FHS trumps the GNU CS. Thus, thou shalt not store
stateful data in /usr/con. Feel free to put it in /con, or /var, or
anywhere else that doesn't violate the FHS.

Is that good enough? I'm willing to hear reasonable arguments that don't
involve tunnel vision, otherwise, this is the policy I'm taking to
FESCO.

~spot
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