Khimenko Victor wrote:
>
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Khimenko Victor wrote:
> >
> > > Yeah, of course. Just FHS closed this way as well. Yes, I (as distribution
> > > maker) can make /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/i386-linux symlink to
> > > /usr/local/lib/perl but since
> > > -- cut --
> > > This directory should always be empty after first installing a
> > > FHS-compliant system. No exceptions to this rule should be made other
> > > than the listed directory stubs.
> > > -- cut --
> > > I (as distribution maker) can not create /usr/local/lib/perl directory.
> > > Thus perl's make install will mysteriously fail while trying to install
> > > stuff.
> >
> > Thank God. /usr/local is often shared, quite possibly readonly, and if
> > distribution packages messed with this, it would be impossible to use
> > them.
> >
> Deabin DOING it. And I have NO complains about such behaviour. Read-only
> mounts not such a big problem:
> -- http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch3.html#s3.1.2 --
It's breaks if the directory is shared but still read-write. Bad idea.
-hpa
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