On 03/30/2011 02:08 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 03/30/2011 02:30 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> On Wed, 30.03.11 18:04, Rahul Sundaram (metherid@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: >> > >> Also, can somebody point me to the place where the FHS would say "no >> other directories below / are allowed"? I can't find that. And hence >> this change is perfectly FHS compliant. > > It's in the preface of the root file system section: > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEROOTFILESYSTEM > > <cite> > Applications must never create or require special files or > subdirectories in the root directory. Other locations in the FHS > hierarchy provide more than enough flexibility for any package. > </cite> Fedora is a distribution, not an application. You neatly elided the following paragraph that explicitly grants distributions the right to do this with careful consideration. Well done. Regards, Bryn. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
