> >I don't understand your problem. Are you out of disc space, or did you >just mis-apportion your partitions? Either way the problem is not that >packagers set up their apps to reside in /usr. The problem is that you >need to re-partition or get another disc.
Inflexibility in the face of limited resources (even if you have 600 gigs on your hard drive it is still limited). >The Filesystem Hierarchy Standards (FHS) http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ do >just what you want. By standardizing file locations, you are much >better able to control your applications. Would you insist on putting >your conf/init files just anywhere? That is not what I am asking to be able to do. I do want to be able to say where Netscape or Siag Office are installed. Not the same thing. >Or does putting them in /etc, where >every programmer knows the path, make sense? Not enough room on your >/var partition? Put your log or mail files just god knows where, right? >Of course you'll need to hack some source (and compile it yourself) to >indicate where to send mail and log info. No biggie, make all >programmers include the option in their conf files. Oops, where the >hell is that file parked? Important files need to be where they can be found by file users. Other files need only to find themselves. >Take a look at the standards. I think you'll see that the end result is >to make your life easier where the file system is concerned. As a programmer myself, I can say that I think that we sometimes tend to want to make our own lives easier at the expense of the user. Which in the end includes ourselves. False economy. Gleason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
