Ian Jackson wrote: > The latest draft FHS, which they may well publish as it stands, makes > the following changes with which I have very strong disagreements: > * The mail spool, /var/spool/mail, is moved to /var/mail.
This is a positive thing. Both SVR4 and BSD 4.4 put it here. I think any contemporary unix should. > * /var/lib is renamed to /var/state (yes, all of it). > * /var/lib/games is moved to /var/games. > * A new directory /usr/libexec is created to hold command binaries > used only internally by programs - these are to be moved from > /usr/lib and in some cases /usr/sbin. Oddly there is no > corresponding /libexec directory. I don't really care about these. They're the sort of thing that dances around from one unix to the next anyway. > The two good changes that I see are (and they are not minor): > * /usr/share exists and is defined. > * /opt exists and is defined. These are nice. > [1] When the original FSSTND was created I argued in favour of > /libexec and /usr/libexec, but lost that debate. I'm less convinced > now than I was then, but my main reason for opposing it now is that it > is too late to change. Nah - we've always got to be careful about "it's too late now" syndrome. To think otherwise, is to plot a path to obsolescence. They oughta add /libexec, tho. Symlinks help, especially if you keep developers informed that usage Of those symlinks is deprecated.
