Re: [SLE] Which directory?

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 10:43, Anders Johansson wrote:

There is a standard called the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) which you can find at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

It says, briefly, that if you're installing software that doesn't come from your OS vendor, then you should install it in either /opt or /usr/local

The main reason for this is to ease upgrades. An upgrade is free, according to the standard, to totally erase any directories except /home, /opt, /srv and /usr/local

This is a great summary of the FHS, at least the most interesting part. Thanks for posting it. Don Henson