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[Chris Snyder]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:46 AM, P.Y <paul at mastermoz.com> 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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