Re: "goals" for slink: FHS
All interested in release goals, I suggest we move this thread over to
-policy, where it belongs, IMHO..
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Scott McDermott wrote:
> Raul Miller on Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 02:05:21PM -0400:
> > > Are there any relevant programs that do not support MANPATH and
> > > INFOPATH?
> >
> > Yes. There are also programs that don't support /etc/manpath.config
>
> This raises a question: why is this not in `/usr/etc/'? In fact should
> not everything with a bin in `/usr/bin/' also have an rcfile in
> `/usr/etc/' ? And the same for `/usr/local/'? This strikes me as common
> sense for partitioning things, makes it straightforward. Does no one
> agree with this?
Not really. /usr is ideally a) read-only in normal system use and
b)shareable between machines of identical architecture.
Jules
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