At this point, FHS feels more like a hindrance to me. Also, it was made in a time with very limited disk capacity and personal computers weren’t much of a thing yet.
@MonkderVierte@Samueru_sama I don’t think the standard (more like a guideline) is bad in itself: consistence of file-system use across applications is good for all our sanity. It is the assumption that all applications use it rigorously that is the problem. The word is SHOULD, not MUST.
While i agree that a standard is useful, i think the FHS is out of date; it has lot’s of fragmentation where it is not needed anymore, instead of keeping it simple. And also lots of reinterpretations, which makes it even more confusing. Which results in some people who learned FHS thing (but never why it happened) keeping slave-ish to it and doing nonsense in major distros. Which, again, results in small niche distro being forced to it too, because they lack the manpower to adapt the tooling.
At this point, FHS feels more like a hindrance to me. Also, it was made in a time with very limited disk capacity and personal computers weren’t much of a thing yet.
@MonkderVierte @Samueru_sama I don’t think the standard (more like a guideline) is bad in itself: consistence of file-system use across applications is good for all our sanity. It is the assumption that all applications use it rigorously that is the problem. The word is SHOULD, not MUST.
While i agree that a standard is useful, i think the FHS is out of date; it has lot’s of fragmentation where it is not needed anymore, instead of keeping it simple. And also lots of reinterpretations, which makes it even more confusing. Which results in some people who learned FHS thing (but never why it happened) keeping slave-ish to it and doing nonsense in major distros. Which, again, results in small niche distro being forced to it too, because they lack the manpower to adapt the tooling.