begin quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:40:43PM -0700: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > I just haven't been convinced yet that having everyone look the same is a > > good idea. > > Until you have someone not familiar with your system do something with > it.
I don't want someone not familiar with my system to do anything on it. > Ever try to help someone with a Windows problem after they had > renamed things like My Computer, or Network Neighborhood? Not a pretty > sight. I always renamed those. They are stupid names. Your computer has a name, use it! It's far worse dealing with people who think that all computers are named "My Computer". Every try to tell someone that if they want to ssh to a windows box, not only do they need to somehow get sshd running, but they have to stop typing "ssh my computer" ? > Differences for difference's sake can sometimes be a bigger pain. Granted. But if you demand that all computes be exactly the same, you're going to end up with a system that isn't quite optimium for you. That's far worse, I feel. > Mind you, on my home systems, I have a /fridge (where I keep all the > cool stuff) and I mount devfs on /devices. I do keep $HOME directories > on /home. Heh. > The FHS was also aimed at people like OS architects, not so much end > users. This makes it easier for you, the end user, to shift from one FHS > compliant platform to another. I think the FHS was aimed _by_ people who like to hard-code paths into their binaries, which is a reprehensible practice, and embarasses them when they try to deploy their software to "non-standard" platforms. When I first saw "FHS" I thought "yay! cool!" ... and then I ran across people who supported it "as a great way to get rid of those pesky config files... you _always_ know where everything will be." The number of filesystem objects that ought to be in a well-known location is vanishingly small. Remember, filesystems were invented to provide flexibility and to get _away_ from certain "files" having to be found in well-known fixed locations. -Stewart -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
