Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:21:50 -0800 From: Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Venting my frustration with FreeBSD Message-ID: <200612041621.50857.fcash@ocis.net> In-Reply-To: <774463.66161.qm@web51814.mail.yahoo.com> References: <774463.66161.qm@web51814.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Monday 04 December 2006 03:31 pm, Nicole wrote: > --- Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> wrote: > 5) My personal Pet Peeve. I miss, when apache (as an example) would > get installed in /usr/local/apache. And all its configs and includes > were there with it. Much like the /opt concept. If its not part of the > OS, keep it seperate! There are so many ports I cannot use becouse it > makes tracking updates and such across many servers much more > difficult. I like the FreeBSD filesystem hierarchy. It makes a lot more sense to me than the hodge-podge created by installing an app (including config files) into /path/to/app-name or the Linux method of "everything under /usr, all configs under /etc). The OS is installed to / and /usr, with OS config files under /etc. 3rd-party apps (ie ports) are installed under /usr/local with config files under /usr/local/etc. Gives a nice delineation between the OS and installed apps. Something I can't stand on Linux systems is that there is no concept of a "base OS" separate from "installed apps". Everything is a mish-mash under /usr and /etc. And don't get me started on the mess that is /var. I've tried reading through the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard several times, and each time I've come away from it wondering how anyone could follow it. There's enough wiggle room in it that two distros could be FHS-compliant without any commonalities in the filesystem layouts. hier(7) on FreeBSD is not perfect, but it makes sense, and it's easy to read, and it's logical. For me, the only time it makes sense to put an entire app (including config and log files) into its own separate directory, is when manually installing from source (by-passing any package management tools the OS ships with). We do this quite often on RedHat systems as building RPMs from scratch is nobody's idea of fun. -- Freddie Cash fcash@ocis.net
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