From: pete@horus.cix.co.uk (Pete Jordan) Subject: Re: Yet another GNU-Win32 website... 12 Aug 1998 03:40:10 -0700 Message-ID: References: <35CF06D9.24C4CD69@sigma6.com> Reply-To: pete@horus.cix.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Jeff Sturm wrote: > More importantly, before RPM (or any package installer) will succeed on > cygwin32 there should be some sort of filesystem standard, like the > FSSTD for Linux. Does everybody have a /usr directory? Howabout /var? > The installer doesn't create these, so for now they are optional... Quite so. IMHO everyone /should/ have both /usr and /var (and /etc and /usr/local for that matter). A standard FS layout compatible with Unix/linux would be no bad thing... For myself, I use /usr etc. for the standard distribution and stuff everything else in /usr/local/... (please can we not have arguments for /opt/... here ;) Pete Jordan ~ Horus Communications Ltd ~ http://www.horus.cix.co.uk/ "'Not twisted,' Salzy once said of her own passion, 'it is helical. That sounds better.'" - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".