On 17 May 2003, Philippe Moutarlier wrote: >As much as I agree with the previous post from Mike (the "LONG ONE" (tm) >:-) , I find this situation with respect to original source usage a >little annoying. > >I think the stock versions of anything like kernels, Xfree etc should be >usable by people who want to be on the bleeding edge without breaking >the architecture of the system. This means that Redhat or whoever >distributes them should keep the 'structure' as identical to the >original as possible. Not when the original source puts things in locations which do not adhere to relevant standards on the target operating system. For our case, this is Linux, and the File Heirarchy Standard and Linux Standard Base are what is relevant here. The default XFree86 location is irrelevant, and by letting XFree86 put things wherever they want, the distribution becomes non-standards compliant and not eligible for LSB certification by standards bodies such as The Open Group. >Of course, things can still break because we are on the bleeding >edge and we better know what it means. But why is Redhat >insisting on putting under Xfree86/lib file which don't belong >there in the original version ? Such as? Please provide examples. >This is the one which makes it very difficult to switch from Redhat >version to the original. Not X supplying extra libs breaking the system >(I personally never hit that problem). Tough. Standards such as the LSB and FHS exist for very good reasons, and Red Hat, along with all other relevant Linux distributions and some lesser ones are supporting these standardization efforts, because there is a lot to be gained from standardization. Putting stuff where a random upstream author or project thinks it should go, or where it goes on another operating system - so it gets plunked there in Linux too is just not a good reason to do it. Feel free to disagree, but feel free to also go create your own Linux distribution and do it how you want, violating standards and all. It's all open source, and nobody can take your freedom away. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
