Conflict between GNU CS and FHS

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 08:37:48PM -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> 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.

Unless I'm confused, /con violates the FHS. (From chapter 3, "Applications
must never create or require special files or subdirectories in the root
directory. Other locations in the FHS hierarchy provide more than enough
flexibility for any package.") So it should be somewhere under /var.

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