Hi.
1) One idea that could be discussed (although it's very unlikely that this is accepted) is, whether all of the current "/*/local*" directories are moved to it's own hierarchy below "/local". So on would have e.g.: /local/bin /local/sbin /local/usr /local/etc /local/var (and their typical sub-hierarchies). I'm not claiming that this is necessarily better that the current schema, especially when one wants to mount some of them read-only, or e.g. keep all var-data in one filesystem. But it would have the advantage, that all local stuff is clearly sorted in its own hierarchy. Of course I know, that this is probably difficult to get accepted. 2) The current "definition" of the "/*/local" hierarchies is quite strange (IMHO): "The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally." "locally" can have many meanings: "local on disk", "on a locally exported network filesystem", etc. etc. Quite often it is simply used like this: - any manually installed software goes to the /*/local/ hierarchies. - any software that is package managed does not. I'd like to see it defined this way. 3) May I suggest to add "/etc/local". This should be analogous to the already specified directories: /usr/local/* /var/local which are intended to contain any locally installed software (which is typically software that is not part of package management). "/etc/local" would contain the system wide configuration of any locally installed software. 4) "/opt/local" would be not directly related to the other directories mentioned above. The usage of "/opt" itself is rather fuzzy, and most distributions do to not install any software/packages there at all. One could argue, that anything that goes to "/opt" is somewhat local anyway,... but it's not necessarily not-packaged. So I'd at least reserve the usage of "/opt/local" for "local usage". Cheers, Chris. _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
