Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:02:18 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Neil Zanella <nzanella@math.mun.ca>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/13407: FHS compliancy Message-ID: <19990827110218.A40666@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <55140.935742378@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 10:26:18AM %2B0200 References: <199908270800.BAA45631@freefall.freebsd.org> <55140.935742378@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Fri 1999-08-27 (10:26), Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > The document should at least be approchable from any location as it > > resides at <ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/fhs/fhs-2.0.tar.gz>. > > All the details are in that document. > > If you want something done about it, your best bet is to single out the > offending placements in FreeBSD and provide us with those, rather than > expecting us to read the document. This advice seems sensible to me > because you've already read the document to be complaining about > FreeBSD's conformance. Oh dear, /opt is apparently for add-on packages, whilst /usr/local is only for local (ie, this specific system) add-ons. It seems most anything that is available to anyone in a package form is actually part of the base system. Similarly, /usr/src is for local sources only. BSD uses the name /var/db for a similar directory [ as /var/state ]. This name seemed overly constricting, as it implied a directory structure intended primarily for database (.db) files. So as to cope with the fact that some keyboards come up with such a high repeat rate as to be unusable, kbdrate may be installed in /sbin on some systems. Actually, there is the occasional spark of insight in it. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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