So sprach �Felix Miata� am 2002-01-24 um 14:31:28 -0500 :
>What about /usr/local/share for non-binaries? /usr/share (or /usr/local/share) is often a good place to put non-binary things (such as documentation). Problems arise because /usr/local really is for 'local' files (stuff outside the distribution) and furthermore, /usr usually is mounted on a non-root partition. Many things in /etc need to be available on the root partition, it would seem. It would be kind of difficult to read start up scripts from /usr/local/share/config/rc, iwith one's mtab in there as well - kind of a catch 22 situation, I think :). /ctc is of course the 'traditional' place, and although it is mostly used for configuration files, that wasn't always the case. The original Unix directory layout was far more simplified than it is today, and /etc used to hold superuser binaries, things like 'mount', things that we would normally put in /sbin or /usr/sbin nowadays. Alexander Skwar
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