On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 17:47 +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > I'm pretty sure the GNU CS is wrong here. There are very good > reasons to let /usr be read-only. IMHO, /var/ would be a much > better place for a sharedstate directory. > > The GCS isn't wrong here, on GNU $(prefix) will be empty, so > $(sharedstatedir) will be equal to /com. If one is worried about > old/broken systems that still use /usr, a simple fix is to make > /usr/com a symbolic link to /com or some such. The reason why /usr is > broken today is simply because what it tries to achive can be solved > using directory unions so an extra directory like /usr isn't needed to > seperate data. Old broken systems defined as "every UNIX platform in use today". Utopia is a nice place to shoot for, but we've got to live in the real world. Then again, I'm not opposed to making /com be the home for sharedstatedir (with a symlink). I just think its a little presumptious to be referring to /usr like it is an abnormal feature of a corner case OS. ~spot -- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Senior Sales Engineer || GPG ID: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my! -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
