Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-13 Thread Zachary Harris
Package: general Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.1.1 My understanding of the FHS would be that if a library is a dependency of a binary in /bin or /sbin, then such library belongs in /lib, not /usr/lib. (If for some reason the library is also desired in /usr/lib then a sym link from /li

Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-14 Thread Zachary Harris
Wow, if this sort of bug report is re-evoking questions on the whole relevance of the historical FHS to modern distros, it does seem that some real "soul searching" is in order on the part of the community as far as the future of where people see Debian/GNU/Linux headed. "Begin with the end in m

Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-14 Thread Zachary Harris
On 12/14/2011 04:43 PM, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: > > [..] >> The same argument applies to encryption. / and /usr both contain a >> selection of programs, libraries etc. If you're encrypting one, why >> would you not encrypt all of it? > > Speed. > > On one o

Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-15 Thread Zachary Harris
Ok, ok, ok, I think I may have got it. Some of your comments helped get me on the proper track of distro-oriented thinking where different systems are picking and choosing a different subset of available packages, but those packages have predefined locations where they have to put things. It has