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Re: [opensuse-factory] Restructuring /usr/bin, etc. [WAS: sles? ]
  • From: Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:37:39 +0200 (CEST)
  • Message-id: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1008101533580.31200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Joerg Schilling wrote:

Philipp Thomas <Philipp.Thomas2@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:35:31 +0200,
Joerg.Schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Joerg Schilling) wrote:

This is historical use.... /usr/local/bin was abandoned in 1989 in favor of the
/opt/<vendor>/bin/* hierarchy.

Definitely no! Citing from FHS 2.3 which is mandatory for LSB

Then it may be that Linux ignores the filesysem hierarchy standards that have
been agreed on with _all_ UNIX vendors in the late 1980s.

Well, that would have been 30 years ago. A lot has happened since and what
was thought to be the best thing since sliced bread then is now only of
anecdotal value.


Steffen

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