Colin Walters wrote:
On 9/20/07, Douglas McClendon <dmc fedora filteredperception org> wrote:Another benefit is making the iso directory structure look nicer and more intuitively understandable for someone looking at it under windows. [...] This also would make the usb/iso directory structure look cleaner and more intuitively understandable to less linux-guru users when they look at the directory structure under windows (or anywhere)I'm not qualified to comment on whether filesystem path cleanups are useful for other reasons, but I think the Windows thing is not an interesting benefit. We don't (or shouldn't) require non-developers to interact with the directory structure, and developers will have to understand things anyways.
A couple more responses- First, not to your point but... I think that the same reasons I advocate these changes for windows users, apply moreso to developers. I think that the proposed filesystem layout will make more intuitive sense to developers. Second, I think I can provide an example use-case refuting your statement- What about the situation of a user wanting to spin a livecd with perhaps say... lots of creative commons media content. I.e. a bunch of .jpgs and .oggs on the iso. I think having a directory structure like- /music/(some .oggs) /images/(some .jpegs) /documentation/(some releasenotes and other html) /boot /LiveOS looks much better to the user than having /os.img and /osmin.gz and /isolinux littering the cdrom root filesystem. It is aesthetics. But I think they really do matter. -dmc