On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:49:22AM -0800, Wm. G. McGrath wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:58:47 -0700 > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : The thing that really sold me on switching from RH to Debian was a > : document called File Heirarchy Standard. FHS sets out in great > : detail exactly where every type of file should be placed on a > : Debian machine, and why. You should really read and understand > : that document before you start re-inventing the wheel. A lot of > : thinking, discussion, and argument went into producing FHS. I > : suppose that it could be improved upon, but you really need to be > : intimately familiar with it, if you are going to have a chance of > : success. There are all sorts of considerations that get ignored in > : a first pass design. Educate yourself before you launch into > : shuffling things around. > > Yeah, I read it many years ago - before there were package managers > I think. It's gone basically nowhere because IMHO it tries to > shoehorn everyone into the same standard.
Gone nowhere? It's used by all the major Linux distributions ... > Desktops, servers, single-disk systems, multi-disk systems, disk-array > systems, NFS systems and so on. There's no way one standard can serve > everyone's best interest. AFAIK distros don't even make use of FHS > dirs like/usr/local and /opt on installation. Distributions aren't supposed to. Those directories are for the use of the local sysadmin. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
