Re: [Fwd: Re: [Dlc-discuss] [Fwd: Linux fragmentation and desktop standards]]
"Aaron J. Seigo" <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 April 2003 08:23, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ > > /usr/mozilla/plugins/ > > /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/ > > Nobody has explained to me why the first one is better or more logical. here's my guess: because the plugins (plugins/) are dynamic components (lib/) of a user application (/usr) named mozilla (mozilla/) the other locations don't match that profile as well... the unix fs system is supposed to be layed out according to function (programs, libraries, configurations, etc) and scope (system admin, users, things specific to the local system, etc) the big problem is, as Dennis noted earlier, is that there isn't standardization (yet) across Linux OS vendors or even individual applications (as Maks pointed out Mozilla spews files into different dirs from version to version). so we end up not only with tons of files located in the same directories but those files are not distributed consistently across systems ... if we could achieve consistency, then we'd be a long ways towards understandability. - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass' http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+li2C1rcusafx20MRAu4FAJwLQedelaCxmuzHQAhEDnJ5fZZH/wCglk2a avxxcg9/V8yvBf+VdlC9G0U= =lxAV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent KDE or the author's employer.