On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 23:05 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:36:06PM +0100, Laurent Rineau wrote: > > On Thursday 01 March 2007 14:30:57 Axel Thimm wrote: > > > Anyway personally I only care about removing %config from /usr, any > > > solution will do. > > > > Can you explain your rational against %config files in /usr? > > "/usr is the second major section of the filesystem. /usr is > shareable, read-only data. At one point in time, at "use-time". This doesn't mean the data on /usr is inaccessible to a maintainer, nor does this mean /usr to be "vendor-exclusive", nor does this mean /usr not to be customizable. > That means that /usr should be shareable ... between machines using an identical OSes, identical architectures and "compatible" setups ... > between various FHS-compliant hosts and must not be written to. It doesn't mean this. It means /usr must not be written to at run-time, i.e. dynamically created files. These are the files which nowadays go to /var, not % config files (Note: %config == Not 100% under rpm-control != (configuration|customizable files). > Any > information that is host-specific or varies with time is stored > elsewhere." Furthermore: You omitted the next sentence: "Large software packages must not use a direct subdirectory under the /usr hierarchy." X11 traditionally had been installed under /usr/X11*. The sentence above is a reflection of this fact. Ralf -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
