[OT] Re: The naming wars continue...

[Grzegorz Kulewski]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Tonnerre wrote:

> Salut,
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:33:25AM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > Why there is any distinction between, say, gcc and X?
> > KDE and Midnight Commander? etc... Why some of them go
> > to /opt while others are spread across dozen of dirs?
>
> Well.
>
> FHS specifies that everything needed  to boot the system should got to
> /bin  and /sbin. The  base system  (build system,  etc.) should  go to
> /usr. The rest should be /opt/itspackagename.
>
> I'm not quite a FHS fan. I use libexec dirs, but I still have my build
> system under /usr (and my home  under /usr/home), and the rest (X, KDE
> et al) lives under /opt.

Hi,

In Gentoo everything goes to /usr/bin or /usr/sbin except very basic 
things that are instaled in /bin or /sbin and binary-only packages that 
are instaled in /opt (very good idea).

Yes, Linux (or UNIX) directory structure should be changed years ago but 
nobody (except GOBO Linux I think) is going to do it. That will require 
patching realy big amount of code and changing some standards. If somebody 
has time for it feel free to contact me, and I will tell him (or her) what 
should be changed to produce The New Directory Standard That Breaks 
Everything But Is The Best And Most Sane In The World (TM)... :-)


Grzegorz Kulewski

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