On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:28:26AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.26.2114 +0200]: > > What software writes to /usr ? > > As noted in the OP, apt-spy, pciutils, and probably others.
My apologies, I only just got that post today! I dived in a little early, but I've read that and #277816, so I may as well throw in my twopenneth: IMHO, The FHS is a little fuzzy on /usr/share: Any program or package which contains or requires data that doesn't need to be modified should store that data in /usr/share In any case, I imagine wanting to support the degenerate case of /usr/share on a /usr filesystem mounted ro. I have sympathy with 'the administrator does it'. And I believe in supplying the best possible tools for the administrator. By default, data which might otherwise live under /usr, but is moved out because it is variable, would go to /var somewhere (or a better place if one exists). So the question must be: What use is served by keeping this data in /usr/share? I'd also question whether this data is truly 'not host specific'. Regards, Paddy -- Perl 6 will give you the big knob. -- Larry Wall