Re: FHS?

In article <000c01c324c7$8769de20$0a00a8c0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Divya Sundaram <divya@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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| 
| Oh, I am all for options too. But I certainly don't want my
| "right" to set up INN separate from the rest of the OS for
| maintainability purposes to be taken away by the FHS Nazis.
| I believe the FHS in general to be an abomination - but then
| I recognize myself to be extremely biased about this too.
| 
| Red Hat and other distros did us all a MAJOR disservice by
| lumping the OS and the applications (be they development or
| whatever) all in one jumbled barely coherent mess.

At one point I thought there was a gleam of sanity glowing, and all the
application config and binaries were going to reside in /opt, but that
didn't happen.

My shared magic profile looks in about a dozen places to find things to
put in the PATH, MANPATH, etc. The good thing is that it works and will
drop in for bash or ksh, on Linux, AIX or Solaris. My tiny blow for
sanity. I do put stuff in /opt, and /usr local, and in the office
/common from the fileserver.

Shows that if you have a bad standard people won't use it.
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.