From: "Hal E. Fulton" Date: 2003-06-12T05:34:49+09:00 Subject: Re: Rubyx (provisionally named) linux distro. Made by and run by Ruby I'd urge that you at least consider a more standard approach. I'm not yet a fulltime Linux user, but I am an old-fashioned Unix guy. :) Even if your approach is more logical, you will still confuse people. And many people do give logins to friends on their desktop boxes. There might even be people remotely logged in. Hal -- Hal Fulton hal9000@hypermetrics.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Walrond" To: "ruby-talk ML" Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 3:28 PM Subject: Re: Rubyx (provisionally named) linux distro. Made by and run by Ruby > The FHS is the way it is mainly because of the way old unix systems used > to be setup (disks), and with multiple users on terminal all using one > machine. This isn't very realistic anymore. Machines are (by and large) > either standard-alone rack mounted web/mail/game servers, or on someones > desktop with one intermittent user. Harddrives are enormous, reliable > and almost free. I've tried to rationalise the filesystem a bit (not > much) such that it reflects reality better, without breaking expected > functionality > > It's not much really. I've introduced /pkg which contains all the > packages, each in it's own directory. And I've collapsed the /, /usr, > /usr/local directories. A few other minor tweaks > > Eric Schwartz wrote: > > Andrew Walrond writes: > > > >>Well; The basic file structure has been rationalised, and each package > >>exists in its own directory; pkg/bash, pkg/glibc etc so its real easy to > >>see what file belongs to which package. Turns one big amorphous blob of > >>files into easily understandable and manageable chunks. Hard links back > >>into bin etc make everything work as expected. > > > > > > Have you looked at the FHS? It's been hashed out by quite a few > > people, and has a very good reason for looking the way it does. If > > you're not FHS-compliant, you almost certainly want to be, or you'll > > be confusing the $#*&! out of your users, most likely. > > > > -=Eric > > >