Re:Making Debian Responsible For Its Actions
by nailer on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @08:51AM
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Agreed. Specifically allowing non-standard locations to remain in packages would cause the FHS would be broken, this would mean:
- config files would be shoved all over the place, without being able to back up /etc as a config location or map frequently read data to var
- You couldn't partition your disks reaosnably beyond a single filesystem as there's no way to predict where apps will shove their junk
- Uninstalling apps would leave junk cron jobs and other files made manually rather than put into include dirs
- Your PATH would be exceedingly long
- You'd end up using 'find' a lot more to know where a particular library is.
No, but others would show up. Come on, these things are engineering tradeoffs, with both positive and negative aspects. Even where we disagree about the benefits and disadvantages, we should agree to disagree in a civil way, rather than calling for "in-person confrontations". There are certainly technical complaints to be made about Debian (I could make a long list myself), but Zed's attitude is way out of line.