gentoo - wow!! - progress

[Collins]

[ snip - split up a very large topic ]
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:46:39 -0400 dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:
> begin  Collins's  quote:
> | Also, I though moving kde and gnome away from /opt
> | used to be a prime requirement of the FHS.  When did that change?
> 
> it never was the case. claims that it was were based on a
> spectacular misreading of the fhs. those who misread it took it to
> mean that anything the distributor provides must go into /usr, which
> is not true.

Thanks for clearing this up.  Gentoo among others still believe that
the FHS requires everything to be dumped in the /usr file structure.

Also, one remaining point.  I thought Redhat was complient, since the
FHS seems to have adopted almost intact the Redhant filesystem and
maintenance (RPM) structure.  Care to expand on the differences?


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Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
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