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- garrettg84, on 08/19/2008, -0/+2While the structure is old, it is proven. This structure helps maintain permissions and makes it easier to use wild cards with user rights. Not dugg, but not burried. I can see it from the other point of view as well.
- bernielomax, on 08/20/2008, -0/+2I enjoy it because you can actually install something from SVN and be able to remove it again without left oer files.
Also, remember, unix already has a persistent database that you can use for file metadata; the filesystem. Just create a hiearchy with symlinks. There's also intriguing ideas in the community of creating Fuse-software that can represent your file system in any way you want. - xv1ncentx, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1I love this kind of discussions, you can see people that absolutely share your point of view, and people that doesn't... That's something that personally let me know a lot of things.
Now i feel confident about exploring better ways to manage software or see the filesystem hierarchy organization... I love the FHS, because is part of what Unix-like systems are (and is kind of a shortcut to find everything), but i've been years and years around Linux, and i really think the FHS is loosing potential. People don't understand it, but is true: i depend of the libraries versions that my Distro have, for say only one thing... you may say i'm wrong, but i'm not, maybe you are superior to me, but i'm not an stupid user, and yet i see zillion of problems, for example: you can't install THIS because there are libs conflicts, you need to upgrade your whole system because the version you are using doesn't support X or Y libs... Think about it.
OK, maybe i'm not the right one to explain all this, but i know i'm right because of my experience and the experience of all kind of users, ISVs, developers, etc.
Inflexibility is the word, which apply to the Linux community and the system itself. - sirhomer, on 08/19/2008, -1/+1If the directory structure of major distributions was changed, it would have far reaching implications. There are thousands and thousands of pages of documentation which refer to files in a certain way, and even if you had perfect backward compatibility, you wouldn't be able to change that.
Linux should move towards a different way of organizing data instead of the typical file hierarchy idea anyway. Think metadata and tags.
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