Eric Smith eric at trueblade.com
Thu Apr 22 14:02:06 CEST 2010

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
> -On [20100422 10:55], Tarek Ziadé (ziade.tarek at gmail.com) wrote:
>> The next big piece is the FHS-compatible handling of resource files,
>> which will worth a PEP on its own.
> 
> You do realize, I hope, that FHS is only followed by Linux distributions and
> not even fully at that. BSD Unixes, for example, have quite some different
> hier(7) requirements, most notably that /usr/local is used.
> 
> So is your intent to have a PEP solely for Linux systems?
> 

I believe the intent is to have enough metadata describing the resource 
files that any system could be supported, including FHS.

-- 
Eric.

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