From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 13:19:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.98.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C0BA37B578 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:19:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA04142; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 22:17:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 22:17:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: Jonathan Fosburgh Cc: j mckitrick , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unix filesystem structure In-Reply-To: <038401c00171$8b6ea3b0$ca406f8f@mdacc.tmc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > IMHO I like everything being where I can find it. I like knowing where th= e > executables are, where the docs are, etc. It makes it easier on paths (ev= er > try looking at /opt setups? Very much like Windows Program Files > directories, grouped by application, so a PATH variable would have to hav= e a > ton of entries rather than maybe 5 or 6) and its easier for me to go to > /usr/local/share/doc/application than to try to remember if it installed = in > Program FIles or somewhere in the drive's (filesystem's) root directory. >=20 > > is there any advantage to the unix filesystem structure, keeping all > > binaries together, all docs together, all config files together, etc, > rather > > than the modern method of keeping all the parts of a given application > > together? Yes, I do agree. Keeping all parts of an application together may be useful for MS Windows (e.g.) where programs are called by a kind of symbolic links fixed in the start menu structure but doesn't seem to practical for a command-line approach where you don't want the path to grow beyond limits. Do't get me wrong: KDE is a nice tool and especially useful for users new to UNIX-like systems - but the command-line interface provided by modern shells like tcsh or bash *is* indeed much more powerful if you get more experience (ment in a general sense - I don't won't to address you here). Konrad Heuer Personal Bookmarks: Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen http://www.freebsd.org Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen http://www.daemonnews.o= rg Deutschland (Germany) kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message