From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 18:15:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA24152 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 18:15:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.ml.org (host77-46.airnet.net [209.64.77.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA23177 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 18:09:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA17132; Tue, 5 May 1998 20:09:18 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <354FB83E.85223FB7@airnet.net> Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 20:09:18 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MIKE JENKINS CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Writable /usr? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG MIKE JENKINS wrote: > > Don't the /usr/share/man/catX directories belong elsewhere? > Linux correctly puts them in /var following the File System > Standard (FSSTND) now called the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard > (FHS) at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/. Whether or not they are in the right place doesn't matter. To say that Linux does the job right is an extremely hot conversation topic that I won't cover here. What matters is that they can be found. Besides, who says FreeBSD needs to meet anyones specifications for filesystems. We are based on 4.4 BSD, not (another-UN*X-name-here). -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message