[indiana-discuss] what's next?

[Michal Bielicki]

Daniel Griffith wrote:
>> -One tool to rule them all 'pkg [add|info|remove] SUNW...'. But keep the
>> older tools for backward compatibility. This will help simplifying the
>> pkg-get implementation.
>
> I think a clean start would be preferable.
>
> I know the "better Linux than Linux" tagline will raise the hackles of
> a lot of people here:) But when planning a new distribution surely a
> clean start would be preferable than screwing ourselves with all the
> issues that "backward compatibility" bring? There are a lot of
> interesting package ideas out there in some of the younger Linux
> distributions and I think that would be a better way to go.
>
>
>> -File system hierarchy is way too complicated for immigrant developpers.
>> Don't touch the core system hierarchy, but we could use '/usr/local' or
>> '/opt/{lib,bin,sbin}' for packages.
>
> Sorry, I think the baselayout needs to change, sure maybe user
> installed packages could go into /usr/local but an app like wget that
> comes with the most minimal install should not be anywhere else than
> /usr/bin.
>
> Maybe a solution is to simply go by the FHS?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
>
> Yeah, I know that is freestandards.org aka the linux-foundation:)
>
If yu look a bit closer at the current Solaris, it follows FHS 2.0 quite
perfectly. The /opt/xyz/... /etc/opt/xyz ... /var/opt/xyz/... is exactly
what FHS 2.0 recommends .....