Filesystem hierarchy standard 3.0 process begins

I don't think multiarch has prompted this resurrection, but it is relevant. The timing is perhaps rather unfortunate in that regard. Multiarch is not a new idea (initially proposed in Debian in 2005 IIRC), but it has only just made it into real distributions (Ubuntu Natty release a week or so ago). That makes it rather too young to be adopted as something to mandate in the FHS. On the other hand if it's going to be a few years before we get another it'd be nice to have it as an option, or mentioned, or something.

We'll be bringing this subject up to see what people thing about it, but I imagine that at the moment most people's reaction to the multiarch stuff is that it is weird Debian/Ubuntu craziness, best ignored. Now in fact it's a powerful and useful concept which I hope will have a long and friutful life, but clearly it's too early to make big claims about how it will create cross-architecture nirvana in filesystem-trees.