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Author: Dan Purgert
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] eventually: the sbin merge
On Apr 05, 2024, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hendrik Boom via Dng said on Fri, 5 Apr 2024 08:29:58 -0400
>
> >But there's no need for the local administrator to use /usr/local for
> >her owm software. She can use a randomly generated name and put
> >everything there. So instead of /usr/local, she could use /fuj67 as a
> >place for all truly local software.
>
> Of course you can, and I do stuff like that. And I'm continually
> attacked viciously by Linux File System doctrinaires for doing so.
>
> I have the following directories that other people yell about:
>
> /d for generic data
> /s for data I want to keep secret
> /scratch for various stuff I don't back up
> /classic for old, old stuff that'll never change
>
> Unix doctrinaires take one look at that and start yelling at me as if I
> were poettering himself.


It is my understanding of the FHS that there are no directives that
explicitly forbid your directory names or their location on the drive.
So, what has people so offended at this (other than maybe your choice of
single-letter directory names :P ).

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