Re: Summary of the 2009-01-06 Packaging Committee meeting

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones redhat com>]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:13:04AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
[...]
> We also are acknowledging here that we may not be able to get our
> changes applied to the FHS (athimm tried to get libexecdir into FHS, for
> instance, but was stymied by their current lack of interest in problems)
> and we'll list more exceptions in the Guideline if necessary.

What's the purpose of this statement then?

> >>>> * Make adherence to the FHS a MUST, [...]

Sounds like we're continuing business as usual - we'll continue to use
FHS from 2004, and will make ad-hoc decisions as required about
exceptions, because as we've seen there is no hope of getting any
changes into FHS itself, since FHS is a dead project.

Rich.

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