On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 04:25:36PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > > _Or_ we would need to come up with a better system of classification > > and introduce a _lot_ more options. The problem with that is that it > > does not scale unless symlinks/hardlinks are abused as a one-level > > classification does not scale [1]. Which is why tags were introduced. > > The FS pendant to tags are links. Not an option. > This reads like "it's not fair for games to have it and other categories to > not; it's not possible to do it for all; so we should change to doing it for > none."
that's what happend to other categories. there used to be 4 or even more in some cases: /usr/games, /usr/X11, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. sunos also had a few more to seperate sysv and ucb, and i think there was one for openwin, etc. each subsystem had their own. eventually they got merged as the difference between them got blurred. games is more or less the last holdout, and i guess it is time for it to go too. instead i'd love to see a real category system because with 3000 files in /usr/bin that directory has become quite useless to find anything, but as pointed out above without tagging a system won't scale so unfortunately this can't be done at the filesystem level until we get filesystems that have usable tagging. (xattr?) greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix services: debugging, programming, training, linux sysadmin, web development -- pike programmer working in china community.gotpike.org foresight developer (open-steam|caudium).org foresightlinux.org unix sysadmin iaeste.at realss.com Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.at/~mbaehr/ is.schon.org _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
