RE: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)
The (F)ilesystem (H)ierarchy (S)tandard tries to standardize the various paths
and offers exhaustive explanations. It makes an interesting read, I think.
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
Christian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: w trillich [mailto:will@pinncomp.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 12:19 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)
>
>
> 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.
>
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