Am Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:35:07 +0100 schrieb Jelle van der Waa <jelle@xxxxxxxx>: > Indeed, this should be the thing the complainers _should_ be doing. > Archlinux ships vanilla upstream, so you're really barking at the > wrong tree here. Please consider asking either PA for help or ditch > it. I don't think this is the totally wrong place, maybe not the very best, but not the worst. Because even if this mailing list is generally distribution specific and the Arch Linux devs try their best to keep PA optional, it's not quite unlikely that other people read this mailing list. Sometimes important changes come from downstream to upstream. Tom also mentioned that regarding the FHS. He told me - I'm not sure anymore if he did this on the list or in a private e-mail - that the new directory structures are first tested in the distros and then will be worked into the new FHS. So those new directory structures are first discussed in the distro specific mailing lists, too, like it has been done on this list with the discussion about /var/run and /run recently. So I think those discussions don't necessarily need to, but can be quite important. If nobody opens his mouth no matter where, nothing will change. Heiko
