From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/927 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gerrit Pape Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: Debian/Ubuntu apt package instead of tar.gz? Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:43:55 +0100 Message-ID: <20051205174355.7112.qmail@5925cface3f452.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> References: <87sltf9k5k.fsf@asfast.com> <20051205171723.4042.qmail@aacb45070c5888.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133804779 3996 80.91.229.2 (5 Dec 2005 17:46:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:46:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-1163-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Mon Dec 05 18:46:16 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjKN4-0006DL-Qn for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2005 18:43:26 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 953 invoked by uid 76); 5 Dec 2005 17:43:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 948 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2005 17:43:48 -0000 Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Mail-Followup-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:927 Archived-At: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 12:36:17PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote: > Gerrit Pape 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.