Fedora lacks obvious support for /usr/share

[Rick Stevens]

jack craig wrote:
> On 07/26/2009 02:58 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> I find no easily location information on actually sharing /usr/share. 
>> It was introduced by Sun in SunOS as a filesystem which could be 
>> shared between all machines on a given release to save disk space. 
>> Disk space is now cheap, but it would be nice to have a common place 
>> to put things shared on a site basis.

That's not what it's for anymore.  It's for "architecture-independent 
data" and is supposed to be read-only for mortal users.

>> Currently I use the /common filesystem for my site local stuff, and 
>> I'm thinking that something in the OS would be appropriate to the 
>> original concept for /usr/share, not for disk saving but for 
>> consistency. Since the stuff there doesn't hurt if there is material 
>> present which is not needed, I wonder if I'm missing an obvious tool 
>> to take advantage of this.
>>
> whats wrong with nfs?

I believe most of the Linux world goes by the Filesystem Hierarchy 
Standard for the most part.  The current version is V2.3 and here's a
link to it:

	http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

/usr/share is discussed in section 4.11

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