The GNU implementations are different than the BSD implementations..
BSD is sort of traditional in its layout and GNU is more like "eh, just
put it someplace and if someone asks about it we'll make up some story as
to why it is where it is."

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, fred pasteck wrote:

> Hi. I have a few FHS questions. RH7 seems to follow
> FHS 2.1 to some extent, but in other aspects it
> doesn't seem to make sense.
>
> Where does the /usr/etc directory come from? That
> doesn't seem to be documented, but openssh gets
> installed there.
>
> Where is the proper directory for chroot'd packages?
>
> What is the purpose of /var/lib/ now? It seems like
> there is data being stored there now that is no longer
> 'variable'..
>
> Is the motiviation behind moving many of the common
> things from /home to /var being for automounting of
> home directories?
>
> thanks.
>
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