[nylug-talk] LSB/FHS filesystem silliness, developer silliness

[Kevin Mark]

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On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:11:48AM -0500, jh wrote:
> Dan Crosta wrote:
> >Michael B Allen wrote:
> >>There's no such thing as /bin/objs*. Clearly something was lost in
> >>translation between the developer's brain and yours. Ask them for
> >>clarificaiton.
> >
> >The name 'objs' rings familiar to me as something I used to use for 
> >compiling .o files before linking into a binary -- is it possible the 
> >developer/support person was referring to the layout within a compiled 
> >source area rather than the layout of the installed binary program? That 
> >might also explain the capital B in /Bin.
> >
> Turns out to be a bit of both, plus some bad communications thrown in. 
> The support person assumed that I had untarred to /, which would have 
> created a /Bin directory. This is apparently what "all their customers 
> do", or what they're told to do when they're walked through installation 
> of the product, and why all of their customers have /Bin directories 
> hanging around.
> 
> Oh boy. This is going to be fun.
> 
> jh
Hi,
as someone who follows Debian development, first they have a strict
adhearance to the FHS. Any variation is a release critical bug.
Violators will be shot ;-) I'd hazard a guess that these developers
would never, ever join the ranks of a Debian developers (or any sane
distros). They'd be laughed out the door. Its not like anyone forbids
some commercial programmer from joining on irc and asking a question or
for that matter using google.  These guys seem to think teh intraweb has
stopped-up tubes.
cheers,
Kev
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