'Best Practices' for downloads ??

[Tim]

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 14:41 -0400, linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

> I went to the above URL what exactly are they talking about 
> when they say: if the corresponding subsystem is installed
> 
>
> The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, 
> must be in /, if the corresponding subsystem is installed:
> 
> Directory	Description
> home	User home directories (optional)
> lib<qual>	Alternate format essential shared libraries (optional)
> root	Home directory for the root user (optional)

If you have users on your system (e.g. it's not a single purpose
server), then you'd have a /home directory.  Of course, there are some
systems that had things like /usr/local/home, and various other
variations on a theme, but /home is the FHS requirement.

If you had 64-bit systems that made use of /lib.64 (or something
similarly named) then you'd have a /lib.64 directory.  Or i386 versus
other CPU types.  And so on...

It is *possible* to dispense with having a /root home directory for a
root user, or have it elsewhere.

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