[OT] Re: The naming wars continue...
From: Grzegorz Kulewski
Date: Wed Oct 27 2004 - 11:15:42 EST
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Tonnerre wrote:
Salut,
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:33:25AM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
Why there is any distinction between, say, gcc and X?
KDE and Midnight Commander? etc... Why some of them go
to /opt while others are spread across dozen of dirs?
Well.
FHS specifies that everything needed to boot the system should got to
/bin and /sbin. The base system (build system, etc.) should go to
/usr. The rest should be /opt/itspackagename.
I'm not quite a FHS fan. I use libexec dirs, but I still have my build
system under /usr (and my home under /usr/home), and the rest (X, KDE
et al) lives under /opt.
Hi,
In Gentoo everything goes to /usr/bin or /usr/sbin except very basic
things that are instaled in /bin or /sbin and binary-only packages that
are instaled in /opt (very good idea).
Yes, Linux (or UNIX) directory structure should be changed years ago but
nobody (except GOBO Linux I think) is going to do it. That will require
patching realy big amount of code and changing some standards. If somebody
has time for it feel free to contact me, and I will tell him (or her) what
should be changed to produce The New Directory Standard That Breaks
Everything But Is The Best And Most Sane In The World (TM)... :-)
Grzegorz Kulewski
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