Re: Hurd FS hierarchy in FHS.

[Gerhard Muntingh]

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:56:00PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Gerhard Muntingh <gerhardm@muntingh.tmfweb.nl> writes:
> > That's not a reason to include an annex.  The FHS specifies
> > a consistent environment for POSIX software.  It's should
> > not contain OS specific contents (IMO).
> 
> FHS has always had the attitude that it would have OS-specific
> annexes.  And here, we can take advantage of that.  So we should.

Only for the things that are really needed, such as /hurd/ .
You've convinced me now.


> > It's just like GNU/Hurd patches for packages.  It's the
> > art to make them independend of platform, _not_ to add
> > support for GNU/Hurd.
> 
> Huh?  Why shouldn't we do both, when appropriate?

Yes, but there should be a big push for platform independend
patches.

I think the thread should end here,

Gerhard.