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Counterpoint: Modern distro’s needs have evolved past the FHS in some cases, and everybody deviates from it slightly but incompatibly. A standard does no good
by Hendrikto 1y ago
Counterpoint: Modern distro’s needs have evolved past the FHS in some cases, and everybody deviates from it slightly but incompatibly.
A standard does no good if it does not reflect reality. I think it is a worthwhile effort to try to bring it back in line with actual real world usage.
- cwillu 1y agoAn interesting take in the context of systemd's deviation from it being the source of bugs because of real world usage that conflicts with systemd's changes.
- sterlind 1y agolaughs in NixOS it's remarkable to me that NixOS manages to run so well despite breaking the FHS so thoroughly. and not just in superficial ways like not calling it /bin, I mean forsaking dynamic linking (hence /var/lib and /usr/lib), keeping man pages, resources and config bundled into the same derivation as the binary sometimes, and occasionally hacking up binary blobs to rewrite rpaths. on the other hand, there's a place for legacy distros too.