On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:39:23PM +0200, Florian La Roche wrote: > It is not helping unix tradition and that we cannot turn back time and > start from scratch again. That would be great, right? Except that to assume the small number of fhs people are more likely to be right than the mass of users/developers is naÃÅve. A large number o Unix conventions developed by rational extension and were tested against rival approaches - lbin v local/bin, sys5 v bsd init /var/mail v /var/spool/mail etc Standardising things when you don't know the answer leads to stuff like OSI.
