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1. hendry+A4[view] [source] 2013-06-26 03:36:03
>>alexho+(OP)
I prefer the simpler filesystem proposal from http://sta.li/filesystem

The FHS has been poorly done for years. For e.g. where is the canonical place for a Web vhost root? /srv/www? /srv/web? /var/www?

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2. gizmo6+i7[view] [source] 2013-06-26 04:28:57
>>hendry+A4
That looks like a really cool idea.

One thing I don't like about its filesystem is its insistence that all binaries go into /bin. As a user, I greatly appreciate the concept of having some sort of /local directory to distinguish between files (or just executable in this case) which the end user installed and which are part of the distribution. If you abandon the idea that /bin has no subdirecories, then I could see /bin/local as a viable alternative (although I think I would still prefer a /local folder where that had /local/bin, /local/etc ...).

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