On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 01:14:40PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
I'd be supportive of an effort to restart the FHS process with
buy-in from
openSUSE (and ideally Debian, Arch, FreeBSD...). And probably systemd too,
from a plain pragmatic point of view.
I think we'd want to either ask Linux Foundation to split it back from the
LSB into its own thing — or else explicitly fork into a new standard.
Wait, I hit send before finishing my thought, which is: we also need a
mechanism which reflects reality rather than an abstract design. Like, sure,
if we were going to create the whole thing from scratch now with no history,
it probably wouldn't look like it does. And distros (even Fedora) have
always just made exceptions. It'd be better to have a working, living
standard that makes room for that than one which everyone ignores.
Which is to say: I _don't_ think the process should be to get the FHS
restarted and updated and in agreement before moving forward, _especially_
when the proposal is already aligned with what openSUSE is doing, and what
we're already doing ourselves with IoT/CoreOS/Kinoite/Silverblue.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader