[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: GNUstep and FHS

[Hubert Chan]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:48:38 +0300, Anton Zinoviev <anton at lml.bas.bg> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:52:48AM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:
>>  * Ask the RMs/QA for an exception due to GNUstep's nature

> There is already a precedent in FHS - the /usr/lib/X11R6 directory.
> GNUstep is not a different case, just a less important one.  For now.

/usr/lib/X11 is actually specified in the FHS to be a symlink "to
/lib/X11, or to whatever /lib/X11 is a symlink to".  (At least that's
what it says in FHS 2.3.)

/usr/X11R6 is specified specifically as an option in FHS and was
basically grandfathered in.  And it seems Branden thinks that it will
eventually disappear (or at least be replaced by symlinks).
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/06/msg01578.html

I think it would be very hard to get /usr/GNUstep added to FHS.


For some strange reason, -policy seems to be rather quiet on this issue
this time around.  There's only been one reply, by Ola, who thinks that
GNUstep is not non-compliant.

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