Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit

[Bryan Kadzban]

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Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote:
> 
>> Example? The common usage of /usr.  Convenient but fundamental 
>> broken. From all the BLFS packages the half or even more, (they)
>> really bellongs to /usr/local hierarchy.
> 
> Why should they be in /usr/local?  If a package is in the book, it is
> part of the "distro" and should be in /usr (or /bin or /sbin).  If a
> user installs something that is *not* in the common blfs, then 
> /usr/local (or /opt) is available for that.

I suspect (but don't know for sure) that the reasoning for /usr/local is
that "it's not in the *LFS* book" -- i.e., I suspect that the definition
of "distro" in this case is "LFS book contents only".

That is one valid position to take, but I believe that "the distro" (as
far as the FHS is concerned) should be LFS plus BLFS, not LFS only --
because while an LFS-book system is actually usable, it does *very*
little.  Therefore, I believe that BLFS is fine installing stuff into
/usr.  But it depends on what you see as the definition of "the distro".
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