Re: Theoretical APT question

From: Wm.G.McGrath (wgm_at_telus.net)
Date: 11/17/03

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To: Paul E Condon <pecondon@peakpeak.com>

    On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:58:47 -0700
    Paul E Condon <pecondon@peakpeak.com> wrote:
    :
    : I don't know the answer to your question, but:
    :
    : The thing that really sold me on switching from RH to Debian was a
    : document called File Heirarchy Standard. FHS sets out in great
    : detail exactly where every type of file should be placed on a
    : Debian machine, and why. You should really read and understand
    : that document before you start re-inventing the wheel. A lot of
    : thinking, discussion, and argument went into producing FHS. I
    : suppose that it could be improved upon, but you really need to be
    : intimately familiar with it, if you are going to have a chance of
    : success. There are all sorts of considerations that get ignored in
    : a first pass design. Educate yourself before you launch into
    : shuffling things around.

    Yeah, I read it many years ago - before there were package managers
    I think. It's gone basically nowhere because IMHO it tries to
    shoehorn everyone into the same standard. Desktops, servers,
    single-disk systems, multi-disk systems, disk-array systems, NFS
    systems and so on. There's no way one standard can serve everyone's
    best interest. AFAIK distros don't even make use of FHS dirs
    like/usr/local and /opt on installation. So why should I adhere to
    it? Originally, /usr served the same purpose as /home does today,
    but now you've got tons of software installed there too. Messy.

    I don't want to re-invent the wheel, but I would like to have
    options. Most of the structure is the way it is for good historical
    reasons and I accept that. Some people are going to need to keep
    things exactly the way they are. If someone needs to use /usr/local
    under NFS be my guest. But if I'm not running NFS......well choice
    is what linux is about - at least limited choice. All I'm looking
    for is a better way to use apt and install software - something more
    in tune with my needs.

    And yes educating myself it what I'm doing by asking questions.

            Thanks for the advice,

            bill 

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