Re: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

[Vitux <viggovap@mail.worldonline.dk>]

w trillich wrote:
> 
> my 2.1 cd installed a great deal of stuff under /usr/doc,
> and the new potato (i.e. 'apt-get upgrade', with
> /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to 'frozen') puts bunches
> of stuff in /usr/share/doc.
> 
> what's the functional or intellectual distinction:
>         /lib
>         /usr/lib
>         /usr/local/lib
>         /var/lib
> 
>         /usr/doc
>         /usr/share/doc
> 
>         /bin
>         /usr/bin
>         /usr/local/bin
>         /sbin
>         /usr/sbin
>         /usr/local/sbin
> 
> this topic is covered briefly in one-o-them HOWTOs, which i can't
> find right off hand... (dhelp search for directories? paths?
> structure? besides, having just reinstalled everything, dsearch
> isn't finding squat anyway...)
> 
> some of these are more obvious to me than others; i bet a couple
> of you newer debian-user subscribers (like me) are interested in
> this, too.
> 
> --
I second! I've always wanted to ask this kind of question!
Any wiz'es?!
;-)
Vitux

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