Guy Fraser wrote:
On Tue, 2005-27-12 at 19:46 -0800, Peter Gordon wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 17:27 -0700, Guy Fraser wrote:
Stuffing a lot of files into a directory is a bad practice,
and Red Hat is well known for it. Check /usr/bin, /etc and
a few others. Many of the files would [normally] be located
under /usr/local.
Pardon my probable misunderstanding, but isn't this the whole idea
of the standard filesystem layout for Unix/Unix-like operating systems?
I.e., if it's not installed through the system package manager, it has
its tree of /lib, /sbin, /bin, /man, /share, etc under /usr/local;
whereas if it *is* installed through the system packaging, it has its
own /lib, /sbin, /bin, /share, /man, etc layout tree under / or /usr,
depending on various factors like partitioning or network-mounting /usr,
etc.
That is how Red Hat and it's offshoots work.
It can be a contentious issue, exactly where to put
non base system files. Sun Microsystems used to prefer
/opt but almost everyone else uses /usr/local for most
add on software. But it is well understood that :
/bin, /sbin and /lib are for
single user base system commands and their required libraries.
That's not quite the case. Check the facts at http://www.pathname.com/
(and fall in love with Enya while you're there).
/usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/lib are for
multiuser base system commands and their required libraries.
/etc is for base system configuration.
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Cheers
John
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