Re: [PLUG] What Does "Install" Really Mean

[LeRoy Cressy <ldc@lrcressy.com>]

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Thomas Thurman wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 06:37:08PM -0500, LeRoy Cressy wrote:
>
> > The /usr/ directory has the same items except for dev, var, root, home,
> > and boot directories.  This is where most of your user software will be 
> > stored.  This system enables every user to have their own private 
> > directory where they can store their own configurations and files.
>
>
> not quite-- /usr is the stuff that isn't directly needed to keep the whole
> show on the road... so essential programs like ld, ls, bash, rm, cat, su
> and so on go in /bin, but all other system-wide binaries go in /usr/bin,
> the most important libraries (like libc) are in /lib, and the rest are
> in /usr/lib, and so on.

> private directories for every user go under /home, not /usr.

I was attempting to give an overall synopsis of fhs to a new user where 
I showed the major subdirectories in the root directory.  Here I was 
just explaining that both the /usr and /usr/local trees are basically 
copies of the root directory minis some directories.

> otherwise yes.
>
> t
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