From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Subject: Re: Debian/Ubuntu apt package instead of tar.gz?
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:43:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051205174355.7112.qmail@5925cface3f452.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3lkyz1m54.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu>
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 12:36:17PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> wrote:
> > As Debian adheres to the FHS, it doesn't install into the /package/
> > hierarchy, but into /sbin/, /usr/bin/, ...
>
> Does Debian's policy prohibit symlinks that would allow both
> traditional and /package paths to work?
Unfortunately yes. It's not that I personally like the strict
commitment to the FHS, but the majority of Debian developers do, it
seems.
Regards, Gerrit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-05 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-29 22:14 Lloyd Zusman
2005-12-05 17:17 ` Gerrit Pape
2005-12-05 17:36 ` Paul Jarc
2005-12-05 17:43 ` Gerrit Pape [this message]
2005-12-05 22:24 ` Lloyd Zusman
2005-12-07 16:54 ` Gerrit Pape
2005-12-08 0:52 ` Lloyd Zusman
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