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Finding a Successor to the FHS
The purpose of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is to provide a specification for filesy [...]
Last year, postmarketOS core developer Pablo Correa Gomez and a few others started an effort to move the FHS work under the freedesktop.org banner and create 4.0 of the standard. In particular, it completely missed the usr-merge, and obviously the merge of bin and sbin… Just looking at the contents table, it is full of outdated stuff, it talks about /mnt and /media, without the understanding that *temporary* paths need to go under /run instead of polluting the root file system. In his most recent comment on the ticket, Jędrzejewski-Szmek said that by linking to UAPI guidelines " we make it more likely that other distributions will follow the same rules", and Fedora does not need to duplicate the work.
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