----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Grubb" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: "Martin Preisler" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 3:02:35 PM > Subject: Re: The default install location of SSG > > On Friday, October 21, 2016 2:37:32 PM EDT Martin Preisler wrote: > > This has been bugging me for a while. The default install location of SSG > > datastream is: > > > > /usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content/ssg-$PRODUCT-ds.xml > > > > This is ridiculous! Why was this super long and complex path chosen? I > > can't > > find this mandated by any standard, it seems to be our own invention. [1] > > > > Why not just > > /usr/share/scap/ssg ? > > Doesn't the Linux FHS say xml data files belong in /usr/share/xml? Then > presumably you want to differentiate with a directory under that.
That's an optional directive and nobody follows it. Check out: find /usr/share -name \*.xml Differentiating files based on their format is not very useful. It makes more sense to differentiate based on their purpose. That's probably why almost nobody follows the XML rule in FHS. -- Martin Preisler Identity Management and Platform Security | Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ scap-security-guide mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
