/usr is an acronym for Unix Shared Resources (ie. the resources accessible by all users of a system) - but it was never anything to do with users home directories - that's what /home is for.
On Dec 7, 2009, at 12:06 AM, Adam Grant wrote: > Im pretty sure the /usr directory has been around longer than 5 > years. I was just making the point that the /usr directory says > nothing informative about its contents. For example: Mac has /Users. > That is pretty informative. It stores user profiles. So /usr must > too, right? No. Not even close. According to your wiki article, it > is a "Secondary hierarchy for read-only user data; contains the > majority of (multi-)user utilities and applications." Intuitive, no? > I thought so. > > And in Windows, you store software in "Program Files". I will bag on > Windoze like the next guy, but that's more logical than /usr. > > My point is that these legacy unix conventions could use a UI > overhaul. I know it will never happen, since every *nix program > built since the dawn of time relies on conventions like these, but > I'm glad to see Mac has at least started down that path (see / > Applications, /Library, /Developer, /Users, etc). > > But this is a rant for a different thread. > > :) > > -- > Adam Grant > Lead Web Engineer > Telaeris, Inc. > [email protected] > (858) 627-9710 > > > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Darren Boyd <[email protected]> > wrote: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Adam Grant <[email protected]> > wrote: > > PS: Is anyone else confused by the legacy convention of using /usr/ > local or /opt as the place to install software programs? Some things > in *nix should be taken out back and put down... > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard > > The current version is from 2004, so it's hardly legacy. > > Where would you put software instead? > > > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
