From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 14:45: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anarchy.io.com (anarchy.io.com [199.170.88.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81CEA37B53A for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:44:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eighner@io.com) Received: from dumpster.io.com.io.com (aus-as4-077.io.com [208.2.105.77]) by anarchy.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA29650; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 16:44:51 -0500 To: j mckitrick Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unix filesystem structure References: <20000808202239.A21332@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> From: Lars Eighner Date: 08 Aug 2000 16:51:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: j mckitrick's message of "Tue, 8 Aug 2000 20:22:39 +0100" Message-ID: <86lmy7a0bd.fsf@dumpster.io.com> Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "Capitol Reef" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In our last episode, <20000808202239.A21332@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, the lovely and talented j mckitrick jm> is there any advantage to the unix filesystem structure, keeping jm> all binaries together, all docs together, all config files jm> together, etc, rather than the modern method of keeping all the jm> parts of a given application together? How long does your path become with the "modern" method? -- Lars Eighner eighner@io.com http://www.io.com/~eighner/ God is REAL, unless explicitly declared INTEGER. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message