On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 16:38 -0700, Timothy Selivanow wrote:
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 16:32 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> Nah.. why take the simple way. In fact.. why have /bin and /usr/bin..
> no one who counts really uses them as seperate things? We should just
> have everything in one or the other. I mean put everything in /bin
> that is executable. Create a /share and we don't really need /usr
> anymore either.
Since nobody else has played the standards cop >;) ...
RedHat is LSB compliant. LSB requires FHS compliance. FHS dictates
where stuff goes. I suppose you could submit a patch upstream ;)
FHS compliance mandates that /sbin and /usr/sbin exist and that specific
files exist in each. You can comply with the FHS by having symlinks for
those specific files. Also - being FHS and LSB compliant is not
mandatory. Providing a single rpm which provided FHS-compliance would be
fairly trivial.
-sv