From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Aug 27 2: 8:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 60C7614C28 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 02:02:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 44029 invoked by uid 1003); 27 Aug 1999 09:02:18 -0000 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:02:18 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Neil Zanella , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/13407: FHS compliancy Message-ID: <19990827110218.A40666@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <199908270800.BAA45631@freefall.freebsd.org> <55140.935742378@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <55140.935742378@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 10:26:18AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri 1999-08-27 (10:26), Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > The document should at least be approchable from any location as it > > resides at . > > All the details are in that document. > > If you want something done about it, your best bet is to single out the > offending placements in FreeBSD and provide us with those, rather than > expecting us to read the document. This advice seems sensible to me > because you've already read the document to be complaining about > FreeBSD's conformance. Oh dear, /opt is apparently for add-on packages, whilst /usr/local is only for local (ie, this specific system) add-ons. It seems most anything that is available to anyone in a package form is actually part of the base system. Similarly, /usr/src is for local sources only. BSD uses the name /var/db for a similar directory [ as /var/state ]. This name seemed overly constricting, as it implied a directory structure intended primarily for database (.db) files. So as to cope with the fact that some keyboards come up with such a high repeat rate as to be unusable, kbdrate may be installed in /sbin on some systems. Actually, there is the occasional spark of insight in it. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message