On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 15:17 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> The "GNU standard" is kinda flawed and nobody uses
that as 1:1.
Utter nonsense.
> I mean,
> /usr/etc? /usr/var?? /us/com???
"Defaults" == they need to be adapted to a specific distro's requirements.
> It's probably more interesting in looking at the more realistic
> "standards", such as FHS, and on what is actually really implemented,
> rather than on GNU which is really mostly theory... I mean, not even
> Debian as the distro closest to GNU follows much of that...
Read it again. It's a guideline distros need to adapt to their demands.
If everyone who implements a standard adapts it to their 'requirements'
and 'demands', then how is it a standard exactly?
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