On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:18:06PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The major target for this proposal is the Linux Standard Base folks, but my
> > (perhaps entirely mistaken) impression is that the LSB is a little more
> > politically driven body than linux-kernel, where it seems like "what's
> > Right and works well wins". As well, there are some small kernel-space
>
> The LSB goal is 'whats already working and everyone agrees has worked for
> ages' wins. The idea is to have a standard not to have ideas ;)
>
Something that seems to have made its way in to several distributions
is the concept of moving package related items to subdirectories, e.g.
/etc/X11, /etc/httpd/, /etc/ppp/, etc. This is kind of nice in that it makes it
a. easy to find package configs and b. cleans up /etc. It would be nice
to standardize on that. Does pluggerrc or squid.conf really need to be in
/etc?
There's no way anyone is going to move really basic stuff like
inetd.conf or passwd out of /etc. Too many preexisting things depend on
their locations.
Austin
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