On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:40:29PM +0100, John Gay wrote: > Sorry for the format, but I'm E-Mailing from Lotus Notes on a Windows PC at work > and can't change the format. Sorry. Prior experience tells me that writing in short paragraphs helps make mail from notes look more reasonable. As ever, YMMV. > Thanks for the info for the FHS, I'll have a search for it later. This explains > why Netscape installed in /usr/local/. . . , but not why Debian puts sane's > config files in /etc/sane.d when sane looks for it in /usr/etc/sane.d. I'm > thinking, then that sane is to blame for being different? Like I said, I'll have > a search for the FHS doc's and have a read. This is how we learn things. It's a combination of both. There is a choice to be made between staying with the application defaults for filesystem layout and making the distribution self-consistent. The former is good for experts in a given package while the latter makes it easier for people to use any given package from the distribution and makes the distribution seem more like a cohesive and integrated whole rather than some software slammed on a CD. In this case, /usr/etc isn't very widely used by Linux programs, and there are strong advantages in putting all configuration (or at least, all configuration of the programs supplied by the distribution) in /etc so it's a fairly easy decision. -- Mark Brown mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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