As has been found in the Fedora Core bugzilla, we discovered a conflict
between the GNU Coding Standards and FHS.
Quoting FHS:
(http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE18)
"/usr is shareable, read-only data. That means that /usr should be
shareable between various FHS-compliant hosts and must not be written
to."
Quoting GNU Coding Standards:
(http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html)
"'sharedstatedir'
The directory for installing architecture-independent data files which
the programs modify while they run. This should normally be
/usr/local/com, but write it as $(prefix)/com.
Since the latter will resolve into /usr/com if $prefix is /usr (which is
common when building a package for a system), a conflict arise, where FHS
says it should not be written to, whereas GNU CS says it is even
recommended to do so, provided the data is architecture-independent.
Could this issue be resolved? I know $sharedstatedir is somewhat obscure,
but not we have a program actually using it.
Please visit our Bugzilla ticket for this if you have the time:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183370
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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