[clue-tech] Proper files storage etiquette?

[Red Mop]

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.