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Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] Proposed filesystem layout for print
 ppd and driver files
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To: "McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>
Cc: mats.d.wichmann@intel.com, wendyp@jurassic.eng.sun.com, rusty@samba.org, printing-architecture <printing-architecture@freestandards.org>, Wendy Phillips <wendy.phillips@sun.com>

McDonald, Ira wrote:
> Hi Till,
> 
> I mostly agree with this set of directory paths - thanks for
> writing up the summary.
> 
> I think that full FHS compliance is important - partly because
> it's a requirement for inclusion in LSB - and partly because
> I dislike "reinventing the wheel".
> 
> Except that I do NOT agree that the symlinks should be
> mandatory - if a print software vendor wants to store
> directly and ONLY in '/opt/share/ppd/<supplier>/<mfg>',
> that is sufficient and _preferable_ to the creation of
> more '/opt/<supplier>' directories for a useless level
> of indirection.

Does the FHS allow files other than symlinks in subdirectories of
/opt/share/ and /opt/lib?

   Till