[clue-tech] Proper files storage etiquette?

[Angelo Bertolli]

Red Mop wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 March 2009 10:09:18 pm Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:39 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us>
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Collins Richey wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:24 PM, David L. Anselmi
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> The FHS tries to standardize things in a way that makes sense.
>>>>>>             
>>>>> their "makes sense" rules make it extremely difficult to house
>>>>> multiple versions of KDE/Gnome in the /usr structure
>>>>>           
>>>> Can you elaborate on that?  I'm not sure KDE/Gnome packages expect to
>>>> co-exist with other versions.
>>>>         
>>> What Shawn said. KDE/Gnome may not expect this, but lots of Gentoo
>>> users prefer to tinker with new upgrades in a sandbox without
>>> destroying their functional setup. By violating the FHS rules (this
>>> particular rule is lame IMO), they make it brain dead simple.
>>>       
>> What rule exactly does this violate?  Or maybe, how does it violate a rule?
>> As long as you have /usr there, the rule is satisfied, no?  I would even go
>> as far as to say a symlink from /usr to something would count.
>>     
>
> shawn at onceler /usr/kde/3.5 $ ls
> bin  env  etc  include  lib  share  shutdown
>
>
> Those directories are normally found elsewhere.  bin is supposed to 
> be /usr/bin, etc is supposed to be /etc, etc.  That's why it violates the 
> FHS.
>   

I don't know.  If you don't actually have another /usr/bin, then I see 
what you mean.  But if these are just extra directories, I'm not sure 
this counts as a violation.  It looks just like /usr/local/* to me, with 
different directory names.


Angelo