Re: [opensuse-factory] Restructuring /usr/bin, etc. [WAS: sles? ]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/10/2010 04:16 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:

Philipp Thomas wrote:

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

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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.

That may be. Linux is a UNIX-like system, not a UNIX system. Linux has the FHS and LSB and while they mostly agree with legacy UNIX specs, they are absolutely free not to. I agree with Steffen. Quoting UNIX specs for FHS is a good historical story, but that's about it. Quoting the *reasons* why certain decisions were made would be constructive. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxhZPgACgkQLPWxlyuTD7JUlACdF5LyDLWh01026P2s8WttNCkS MGcAniJZMXbgzS+uUNCDsnCa7rMbn7zQ =4QIh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org