Re: FHS

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Russ Allbery <address@hidden> writes:

> Personally, I'm somewhat annoyed to see yet more paths going into Autoconf
> that I'll then have to override to get the installation paths that I want
> (namely a flat tree of bin, sbin, lib, man, info, and etc); with over five
> hundred packages installed that way and using automated tools to maintain
> Stanford's shared software tree, I have no intention at the present time
> of changing our package layout.  But I suppose I can always continue to
> override all the individual paths like I already have to do for
> sharedstatedir, libexecdir, and datadir.  (Of course, GNU gettext has a
> habit of blissfully ignoring the datadir setting given at configure time
> in favor of hard-coding share.  And I'm not sure anything actually uses
> sharedstatedir and libexecdir except Emacs.)

The changes here for the GNU Coding Standards (which I'm proposing,
and RMS has now agreed to) will not add any new paths, it will simply
change some that currently exist.