Re: [TCLUG:15481] Faeriedist

[<Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com>]

hick0088@tc.umn.edu, on 04/04/2000 11:26:26 AM
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org @ PMDF
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:15481] Faeriedist

>Dave Sherohman wrote:
>> 
>> Nate Carlson said:
>> > EWWWW! Why not follow the Linux (or is it POSIX?) standard for locations
>> > of these type of things? That's one of my number one annoyances: having to
>> > search all over for config/log files.... look to Debian for an example of
>> > how it SHOULD be done.  :)
>> 
>> Standard file locations, eh?  Are they using /usr/doc or /usr/share/doc this
>> week?  (Where can I find a copy of the FHS standard that they (claim to?) be
>> using?  I want to know what this 'share' *&^! is supposed to mean.)

>From what I understand, /usr/share (and /usr/local/share, /opt/share,
>etc) is supposed to hold platform-independent data.  I think it would be
>reasonable for a distribution to decide to put it's documentation in
>/usr/share/doc, but it has to be consistent (in that case, it would
>make  sense to make /usr/doc a symlink to /usr/share/doc)

I think this is another bad idea.  After all, who decides which data is 
platform-independant?
Like, say I'm looking at some kind of application (like watch, or strace) that 
is usable
on Linux... should it go in /usr/share/doc because, after all, the 
documentation is
platform independant?  Or perhaps it should go in /usr/doc, since the commands
are platform dependant?  Who knows?  Let's just confuse folks more, yay!

Nick Reinking