Arlen Carlson wrote:
Regarding the location of docs, its GOOD to see SuSE finally putting them in the right place...anything Debian has been sticking to this location for some time. I think its a LSB thing (Linux Standard Base, IIRC), which will become even more important over the next year or more. Debian is very religious about sticking to such standards...whereas SuSE has been very sloppy to date (especially with their usage of /opt).
In my opinion, saying that SuSE has been 'very sloppy' is very harsh. SuSE is one of the Linux distributors that has adhered closest to the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, which is a part of the Linux Standards Base) - more so than RedHat. Any differences between SuSE and the FHS were only due to the fact that the FHS was unclear in places. Wherever this was the case, SuSE left the directory structure as is, in order to minimise that changes for the end user has to cope with. Now that certain aspects of the FHS have been clarified, SuSE has had to take the plunge and alter their filesystem structure to fall into line.
And as I go along, I'm noticing more and more problems, introduced with SuSE 7.0. Whoever concocted the idea of moving the package docs, for instance? All of a sudden /usr/doc/packages was empty, and everything was in /usr/share/doc/packages. While the packages themselves, it seems, as a rule expects to find the doc in /usr/doc/packages. Things like that are a total pain for anyone who edits their own configuration files. I've had to spend quite a bit of time with my httpd.conf now, because of this.
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