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Date:      Tue, 1 Apr 1997 19:18:33 +1000 (EST)
From:      proff@suburbia.net
To:        dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   file system layout
Message-ID:  <19970401091834.1646.qmail@suburbia.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970401095601.305B-100000@kipper.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "Apr 1, 97 09:56:55 am"

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> Wouldn't it be useful to have /var/local as well as /usr/local.  Machine
> unique stuff like ssh keys etc. can go in /var/local and shared stuff can
> go in /usr/local.
> 
> --
> Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
> Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891

The whole file system layout is not effective.

Each package should have it's own tree.
Configuration modifications should be done using unionfs.

This allows you to store installed packages on write-protected media
and union over them for any changes. The same goes for the entire
base system.

--
Prof. Julian Assange  |If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people
		      |together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks
proff@iq.org          |and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless
proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu  |immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery



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