Linux Core Spec

[Jeffrey <jeffj@micoks.net>]

Setting aside compilability, support can be difficult for a non-standard
file
system. When I ask a client to look at a certain file and it isn't there
I
have to waste a lot of time looking for the files. A company providing
support
for a product will want all Linux file systems to look alike.
Personally I don't care where files are put but it would be nice for all
of us
to put them in the same place.
Can't we use hard links to put a file in two places at once?
                                                       -Jeff


john@dhh.gt.org wrote:
> 
> George Bonser writes:
> > There is the distribution core which WILL define a filesystem layout, a
> > packaging format, etc. and >there is a Linux core which defines only the
> > base software.
> 
> I agree that the Linux core should not define a packaging system.
> 
> > What THAT spec does is gives me confidance that I can download that
> > software, put it in /usr/local/src and do a make and it will compile.
> 
> Without a file hierarchy standard you can't be certain that everything will
> compile and run.
> --
> John Hasler
> john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, WI