[RFC] User Accesable Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Wed Apr 7 05:40:52 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 22:31, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> 
> Only OS vendor stuff has a prefix of /usr
> Third party stuff has a prefix of /usr/contrib
> /usr/contrib/lib
> /usr/contrib/include
> /usr/contrib/etc
> /usr/contrib/bin
> 
> only package manager stuff goes in /usr/contrib - stuff compiled from
> source still goes in /usr/local

And of course - root's path should NOT have /usr/contrib/bin in it - for
obvious reasons - since root isn't required to install there (which is
another reason to not allow the contrib stuff to satisfy the distro
rpm's - as you could end up with a distro binary using a tainted shared
library from contrib when run as root)

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