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- From: moacs11!walra@relay.nl.net (Waldi Ravens)
- Subject: [MINTOS] fs tree structure (was: Re: MiNT goes UNiX, ... )
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 15:05:12 +0100
-
- In <9401121159.AA14546@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de>, Michael Hohmuth writes:
-
- > > 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.
-
- Stephen, what do you mean with generic ?
-
- > 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. :-)
-
- As time goes by "GNUish" will be identical to "POSIXish".
- What about:
- "GNUish" -> /usr/bin (also some in /bin)
- "BSDish" -> /usr/ucb
- "SysVish" -> /usr/bin5
-
- > "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".
-
- Regards,
- Waldi (walra%moacs11@nl.net)
-