Randy McMurchy wrote: > Continuing in the spirit of conversation, I can see where having > subdirectories containing just one file can be helpful. These examples > are hypothetical, but may be practical as they seem reasonable to me. > > Anyway, say you have (for whatever reason) two newsfeed > servers/programs on your system. Both use a file named news.conf as > its configuration file. One program can store its configuration file > in /etc/prog1/news.conf and the other in /etc/prog1/news.conf. These > news.conf files are the only files in each subdirectory. > > Another use may be that you are having to maintain two versions of > a specific program on your system. Each as the same named (but with > different syntax or additional parameters) configuration file. You > specify different /etc/ directories as sysconfdir for each of the > two versions. Again, only one file in each directory. > > Perhaps for these types of examples the FHS uses the blanket > "subdirectories are preferred" statement so that there is less chance > of conflicting filenames
Good observations as is Tushar's comment. I think I'll chalk this up to learning and drop it now. :) -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
