Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) compliancy?

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article >yl66p7mtap.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu>,
Russ Allbery  <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:
>I understand that.  However, in my experience, it doesn't work.  I'm one
>of the people who has to answer questions from those people when they
>can't get INN to work, and I've seen that in practice Red Hat's layout
>causes those people to be unable to find the files that they need to
>configure INN.

You keep on talking about RedHat. RedHat != Linux. RedHat != FHS, either.
In fact, that last sentence bears a lot of truth.

I have maintained the Debian INN version for quite some time, and
several of the patches that have made FHS compliance an easier goal
have been mine. In general people thought that the Debian layout
was well-thoughtout.

Not that I'm saying that Debian is the be-all end-all of OSes.
Certainly not. I'm just saying that you should keep an open mind.

Mike.
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