[nylug-talk] LSB/FHS filesystem silliness, developer silliness

[Peter C. Norton]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 02:09:46PM -0500, jh wrote:
> H. G. wrote:
> >On 12/5/06, jh <jhlists at hirschman.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>I'm evaluating some commercialware for Linux, and the stuff simply
> >>doesn't install.
> >>
> >>The developer asked me to tell him the contents of "/Bin/objs"... there
> >>is no /Bin, /Bin/objs or /bin/objs on my systems. They're all recent
> >>Gentoo, btw.
> 
> >
> >If you don't mind me asking, what kind of commercialware is this?
> 
> It is an industry-specific toolkit; much more than that, I cannot say.
> 
> I forgot to mention the LSB/FHS silliness part of my email - is there a 
> simple tree view of a "correct" filesystem that someone can point me to?
> 
> I've also found that a Fedora-using friend has no such directories; I 
> think that the developers are smoking crack.

The only unix-like systems I've seen running with directories named
with capitals were, IIRC, next/openstep (the progenitors of MacOS X)

FHS is here:

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

I think you'll have to condense your own tree view based on that, or
this:

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEROOTFILESYSTEM

Good luck,

-Peter

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