Re: Interpreting FHS

[Chris Cheney <ccheney@cheney.cx>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:48:06AM +0200, Jarno Elonen wrote:
-snip-
> If there were a way to remove symlinks when the original file is removed,
> I think the following structure would be the easiest to understand and
> administrate:
> 
>   + usr
>     + bin
>       + qtcups -> ../qtcups/bin/qtcups
>       + nano -> ../nano/bin/nano
>     + sbin
>       + traceroute -> ../traceroute/bin/traceroute
>     + qtcups
>       + etc (conf)
>       + share (data)
>       + bin (binaries)
>       + doc (man, info)
>     + nano
>       + etc
>       + bin
>       + doc
>     + traceroute
>       + etc
>       + bin
>       + doc

If it was structured like this then besides the other issues mentioned
wrt libs, you could have up to ~ 8500 subdirs in /usr, not particularly
good. 8)

Chris Cheney