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by k_roy 1009 days ago
It's a nice thought, but most distros poop all over FHS anyway.

When was the last time you hopped between distros Ubuntu->OpenSUSE->Fedora and had packages be in the same spot? Because I distro hop a LOT and they almost NEVER are.

Even if it's just /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin, where is the consistency, not to mention controlling access. Remember when Debian took the sbins out of the path and everybody claimed Debian sucked?

When was the last time you saw /usr mounted as read-only? Because it's supposed to be.

With tech like snaps and flatpaks, containers, NixOS, etc, to call FHS anything more than a suggestion in 2023 is extreme wishful thinking.