Mike Gerdts wrote: >> Just one quick observation. (appologies if this has been >> discussed, this only just appeared in the list I subscribe to.) >> >> Maybe dropping the 'd' off 'shared' is better? there is already a >> /usr/share, and 'share' is found in other places too. > > I agree - otherwise we will have surely new users refering to > /usr/shared if they stumble across /var/shared first. >
This sounds better to me too. > > I agree that /var/crash belongs there. And several other things > probably do too. See > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/2007-August/000737.html > for a somewhat comprehensive list of /var directories that are not > controlled by the package database and as such should be considered as > to whether you really want a copy that is private to a boot > environment. We'll need to take a closer look at each one of these to see if /var/share is appropriate, and if so, we'll make the move. For now, I'd like to push forward on the idea of /var/share. I'll be sending out a proposal to capture this. Thoughts and comments on that will be much welcomed. thanks, -ethan
