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> The FHS ultimately belongs to the users collectively, not those maintaining it.

I completely agree that regular updates are not a requirement for standards to remain relevant, but it does require the ecosystem to still adhere to them - and the problem is that Linux users are increasingly deviating from the FHS.

The FHS does not accurately describe the situation on-the-ground, there are no plans to update the FHS to accurately describe the situation on-the-ground, and there are no plans to update the ecosystem to accurately implement the FHS.

Like it or not: the FHS is dead, and nobody seems interested in reviving it.



Huh, most programs do use it, and if they don't that's a bug?




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