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  • From: Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>
  • To: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • Cc: Source Mage - Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] [fhs-discuss] Informal Straw Poll for /srv and /media
  • Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:45:50 -0600



On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 19:19, Eric Sandall wrote:
> And that's what (well, among other things) makes UNIX(TM)-like systems so
> much
> better than other OS'; you can mount anything anywhere you want. You could
> put
> /usr/share on another partition, or even /usr/share/apache2 on /dev/hde4 and
> /usr/share/horde on /dev/hda9. It may not be pretty, but since when does
> pretty
> have anything to do with servers? And "it's pretty" is definately not a
> good
> reason (IMO) to change a standard. :)

I still don't like variable data being in /usr that is another reason
that I move the files out of there and put them in /var or other place
that I feel they belong. Also why I make some custom spells like apache
to have them not install in the /usr directory.

CuZnDragon
Robin Cook





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