Re: Theoretical APT question
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:49:22AM -0800, Wm. G. McGrath wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:58:47 -0700
> Paul E Condon <pecondon@peakpeak.com> wrote:
> : The thing that really sold me on switching from RH to Debian was a
> : document called File Heirarchy Standard. FHS sets out in great
> : detail exactly where every type of file should be placed on a
> : Debian machine, and why. You should really read and understand
> : that document before you start re-inventing the wheel. A lot of
> : thinking, discussion, and argument went into producing FHS. I
> : suppose that it could be improved upon, but you really need to be
> : intimately familiar with it, if you are going to have a chance of
> : success. There are all sorts of considerations that get ignored in
> : a first pass design. Educate yourself before you launch into
> : shuffling things around.
>
> Yeah, I read it many years ago - before there were package managers
> I think. It's gone basically nowhere because IMHO it tries to
> shoehorn everyone into the same standard.
Gone nowhere? It's used by all the major Linux distributions ...
> Desktops, servers, single-disk systems, multi-disk systems, disk-array
> systems, NFS systems and so on. There's no way one standard can serve
> everyone's best interest. AFAIK distros don't even make use of FHS
> dirs like/usr/local and /opt on installation.
Distributions aren't supposed to. Those directories are for the use of
the local sysadmin.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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