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- From: Stephen Usher <Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: MiNT goes UNiX, invitation for mailing list (MINTOS)
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 13:10:56 +0000 (GMT)
- In-Reply-To: <9401121159.AA14546@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de> from "Michael Hohmuth" at Jan 12, 94 12:59:03 pm
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- >> > BSD-Net2 DEC OSF/1 Linux
- >
- >> >Mail spool /var/mail /var/spool/mail
- >> ^^^^^^^^^
- >> Surely you mean /var/spool/mail?
- >
- >This was also news to me. I took this from BSD-Net2's README.
-
- OK.. I believe you... It's just that every other BSD-like system I've seen
- has in in either /usr/spool/mail or /var/spool/mail.
-
- >> I like separating the UCB stuff from the generic from the SYSV, and would go
- >> further, adding a /usr/posixbin for all those commands for which the posix
- >> version differs from the generic/BSD/SYSV.
- >
- >I think that this should be mainly a concern of how a specific
- >distribution organizes the binaries in /usr. For the purposes of this
- >discussion we should at most identify "generic" versions, and put those
- >into either /usr/bin or /usr/ucb. "Generic" in this context means
- >"POSIXish" or "GNUish" or "BSDish" or "SysVish", preferrably in that
- >order. :-)
-
- The reason I was separating "POSIXish", "BSDish" and "SysVish" was so that
- users could tailor thier environment merely by changing their path ordering.
-
- >"Generic" should also mean that /usr/local remains empty. It should be
- >up to a distribution to decite where to dump stuff not identified as
- >"generic".
-
- /usr/local should be used to hold all those programs you wouldn't usually
- find in /usr/{bin,ucb,5bin} on a "standard" commercial Unix, ie things such
- as emacs, jove, my-favourite-program etc. It would allow people to upgrade
- the optional software without messing about with the "standard" environment.
-
- Oh, and in my list I forgot the most important directory hierarchy of all..
-
- /usr/games
-
- :-)
-
- >Michael
- >--
- >Internet: hohmuth@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de
-
- Steve
-
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