Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-12-19)

[Adam Williamson]

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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