On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 04:54:52AM +0200, Bruno Cornec wrote: > 1/ shouldn't /usr/include be optional (production system may not need it > at all or are there some really mandatory include files needed on a > system that I'm not aware of ?)
aren't most directories optional if they are only relevant for a specific subsystem? > 2/ shoudn't there be a note to say that sharing /usr content may lead to > issues with package managers of Linux distributions ? (as exposed during > some previous discussions on the ML) sharing /usr with other machines is ok, using a shared /usr from another machine if the current one is using a package manager is what leads to problems. > 3/ Even if I understand the rationale, I find strange that the mail > spool isn't under /var/spool, and the Linux distro I use still place it > under that directory, having just a symlink in /var to it. well, i see another reason: /var/spool is a temporary location, for things that are intended to be moved later, and deleted after processing. not all mailclients move mail from /var/spool/mail to the users homedirectory. hence i believe that /var/mail was created because its use differs from /var/spool in that the users inbox resides there permanently. > 4/ On Linux systems, the kernel is more often located under /boot than / > in the distributions I'm using. maybe that should be at least noted as > an alternative in 6.1.1 hmm, i just found that the whole linux annex makes the fhs a bit hard to read. especially because most readers will be linux users, so they always have to look in two places. would it make sense to move the linux specific comments to the main sections they relate to? then when i go look up say /boot, everything about it is on one place, and i have the note what is linux specific right there. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix services: debugging, programming, training, linux sysadmin, web development -- pike programmer working in china community.gotpike.org foresight developer (open-steam|caudium).org foresightlinux.org unix sysadmin iaeste.at realss.com Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.at/~mbaehr/ is.schon.org _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
