On 9/21/07, Richi Plana <myfedora(a)richip.dhs.org> wrote:
Same thing I've been saying, but it's only now that I
realized that I've
been assuming the wrong thing. When I read FHS, in my mind, I was
thinking LSB. So here I was thinking that Fedora was simply following
some guidelines set up by the FSB for its directory hierarchy. Now that
I know that FHS refers to the Fedora Hierarchy Structure, this changes a
few things.
As I said, I thought it referred to an LSB guideline which made me think
Fedora could be flexible with its interpretation and implementation.
Now that I've read up on the FHS, I have to say that it needs reworking
if only because some of the things it states contradict others.
The FHS /is/ part of the LSB specification. It's the Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard as promoted by the OpenGroup. See here:
http://www.opengroup.org/testing/lsb-fhs/
The Fedora Project adopted it with the exception of libexecdir.
Best wishes,
Oisin Feeley