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- From: mh1@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth)
- Subject: Re: [MINTOS] fs tree structure (was: Re: MiNT goes UNiX, ... )
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 05:34:49 +0100 (MET)
- In-Reply-To: <pMrWd_aBOfI@moacs11> from "Waldi Ravens" at Jan 12, 94 03:05:12 pm
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- Waldi writes:
-
- > > 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
-
- Steve writes:
-
- > The reason I was separating "POSIXish", "BSDish" and "SysVish" was so that
- > users could tailor thier environment merely by changing their path ordering.
-
- I'd like to propose not to go into too much detail in defining a "standard"
- for the file system layout. Different distributions will handle things
- differently, so I don't see much sense in discussing at this time where
- particular binaries of particular flavours of Unix should live, especially
- since most programs are independent of their physical location.
-
- Identifying the standard locations of config files and single user
- executables and a basic layout for /var should suffice at this point, as
- these are most closely related to the function of a Unix-like system.
-
- Michael
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