Am Dienstag, den 12.05.2009, 10:47 +0200 schrieb Michael Nielsen: > I know of the standard, however, I really doubt the current Fedora > configuration really > follows it, Can you elaborate this allegation a little? Where _exactly_ does Fedora not follow it? The previous examples you gave were not proving your point of view: /usr/local is not meant to be touched by package management and /opt is not for things that belong to the distro itself. > I still don't see why everything needs to be thrown in /usr/bin? Because it _is_ the standard and has been for years. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRBINMOSTUSERCOMMANDS > Thus if you need to run a non-packaged software, due to patches that > you need (security), Such patches should be in the package, file a bug if they are not. You have an example of that handy? > you can > only hope that the package manager successfully removes everything, > and does not leave junk behind > which may, or may not affect the running of the newer compilation. Again: Example? rpmdb tracks all files, so there shouldn't be left anything behind. > Throwing everything in one directory hierarchy causes one particular > problem that I personally find > rather annoying, the inability to use the package manager system to > have multiple versions of > for-instance firefox installed on a system, as I often test on > multiple versions, however, if I do not > use the package manager, it is trivial to have multiple versions of an > application installed, > however, now the updates for the application is disabled, and they > need to be manually updated, > which is annoying. This has nothing to do with the file system layout but with package management itself: A package manager will not install two versions of the same package but upgrade the older one. > The same situation can be seen when you run 64 bit systems, sometimes > you need to run something > in 32bit compatibility, however you cannot install the libraries you > need because of conflicts in the > packaging system, as - again - everything is thrown into one directory > - in this case the /usr/share/doc > directory, which means you need to find out how to force the > installation of the libraries. The problems with docdir were solved *long* time ago [1], so you can easily install both 32 and 64 bit packages. Obviously you did not try for the last two - three years, which makes your criticism pretty pointless. > /mike. Regards, Christoph [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=209306 The fact that this bug was opened in October 2006 shows that it was very well possible to install both i386 and x86_64 together at that time. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
