> > Given that it describes a particular file hierarchy
conventionally
> > used only by Linux systems from major Linux distributors, how
would
> > you expect that to be the case?
>
> From the opening paragraph of the standard:
>
> "This standard consists of a set of requirements and guidelines
for file
> and directory placement under UNIX-like operating systems. The
> guidelines are intended to support interoperability of
applications,
> system administration tools, development tools, and scripts as
well as
> greater uniformity of documentation for these systems."
>
> My goal is to determine if this is actually true, or if it is only
> relevant to Linux, as you suggest. I don't want to exclude you
(and the
> other BSD systems, and the other UNIXes) without making sure.
far from being away a *BSD- or Linux-developer, my opinion:
I don't think you can reach this uniformity without having only a
very small
standard.
Adding BSDs to the FHS would need various modifications which just
do not
apply to Linux-systems. Just, for example:
* /var/db is rarely used on Linuxes, on BSDs the packaging
informations are
stored there, /var/lib is rather used on Linux.
* /boot is not the place to store boot-files, the configuration and
kernels
on NetBSD lie partially in /.