]] Zachary Harris > 1) A given package can make at most one directory in /usr/lib, but then > can do whatever it wants as far as the subdirectory tree therein.
Please remember that there are also common directories in /usr/lib which are typically used for plugins for applications. An example would be telepathy, pkg-config or systemd, but to some degree also python, perl and other tools. The files in /usr/lib and /lib are not just libraries, but all kinds of architecture-specific files. [...] > 3) Discussion on this list, and also a related discussion I participated > in with several Debian developers at the beginning of this year, reveals > that there is a major camp within the Linux community that would wish to > abandon the whole root vs. usr distinction and simplify the directory > structure, while there also remains a major camp that thinks that there > are still significant use cases for the distinction and is by no means > ready to agree to collapse it at least on a universal scale. While there are Debian people who want this, it's been Fedora which has been spearheading the effort of moving everything into /usr [snipped bits that Russ replied to and where I have nothing more to add] Cheears, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
