Michael Goetze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Color me an ignorant NetBSD hacker -- what is FHS? > > Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
I never heard of it before. I just had a look. It is very similar to the NetBSD layout (which is very largely unchanged from 4.4BSD). There are some annoying differences, including /opt vs /usr/pkg, the whole BSD concept of libdata and libexec, etc. However, the overall ideas seem to be pretty much similar. (The lack of things like libexec seems like a serious deficit in the FHS -- it highly unclutters user executable directories. /opt is likely a religious issue which means trouble but if one anticipates trouble it is possible to avoid it...) Now, I have serious doubts that the NetBSD world would be interested in changing how it handles its hierarchy, but the similarity means that conditional build techniques would make it fairly straightforward to make both a FHS and a NetBSD style file layout possible without large amounts of pain. They aren't very different. I have to learn more about how Debian package tools work -- I'd appreciate more links to useful reading... Perry -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NetBSD Development, Support & CDs. http://www.wasabisystems.com/
