On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:46 AM, P.Y <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can you explain what you mean when you say "Debian's ever-more-complicated > filesystem" > > Mainly that some--but not all--shared libraries are being moved from /usr/lib into /usr/lib/<arch>, which makes hand-compiling a bit more difficult.
Or take a look at how a package like mailman, which is really meant to reside in a single directory, is spread all over the system: cd /var/lib/mailman/ aws:/var/lib/mailman# ls -l total 28 drwxrwsr-x 4 root list 4096 2010-03-16 18:05 archives lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2010-03-16 18:05 bin -> /usr/lib/mailman/bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2010-03-16 18:05 cgi-bin -> /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2010-03-16 18:05 cron -> /usr/lib/mailman/cron drwxrwsr-x 2 root list 4096 2013-07-16 15:46 data lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2010-03-16 18:05 icons -> /usr/share/images/mailman drwxrwsr-x 8 root list 4096 2010-04-30 11:50 lists lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2010-03-16 18:05 locks -> ../../lock/mailman lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2010-03-16 18:05 logs -> ../../log/mailman lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2010-03-16 18:05 mail -> /usr/lib/mailman/mail lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2010-03-16 18:05 Mailman -> /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman drwxr-sr-x 37 root list 4096 2011-04-26 12:17 messages lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2010-03-16 18:05 pythonlib -> /usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib drwxrwsr-x 11 list list 4096 2010-03-16 18:08 qfiles lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2010-03-16 18:05 scripts -> /usr/lib/mailman/scripts drwxrwsr-x 2 root list 4096 2007-02-28 16:35 spam lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2010-03-16 18:05 templates -> /etc/mailman drwxrwsr-x 4 root list 4096 2011-04-26 12:17 tests I understand the logic behind the decisions about where to put stuff -- the use of /var/lib versus /usr/lib, etc. But as a personal preference I would rather it was simpler. It's not like I have /usr and /var on separate partitions, disk space is abundant, even on SSDs.
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