Conflict between GNU CS and FHS

[Linus Walleij]

Thanks for an enlighting answer (as always) Ralf.

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> IMO, from FE's POV, this whole issue boils down to a bug in
> RPM. /usr/com is definitely wrong.

I have filed this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185862

> IMO, using /var as "sharedstatedir" would probably work in 99% of all
> cases, but I thinks will only a matter of time until you'd find a clash
> between "localstatedir" and "sharedstatedir", so I'd be leaning
> for /var/com or similar.

I actually suggested just /var. It will work with the only package we have 
that use $sharedstatedir and I do not expect it to become popular.

Linus