[plug] Easy Installation: Linux Desktop Market

[Mr Shayne]

> There are good reasons why files go where they do. Take a look at clamd,
> for example:

This is the nut of the issue. My first linux was a self assembled mess in 
the early ninteys ( I think I misunderstood Slackware ) , and before that 
I ran Minix, and before that I'd hacked extensively around the limitations 
of my student Unix and Vax accounts.

Now even with the good preparation that I had from Minix and Unix, I 
really didnt have the foggiest clue where stuff went (remember Autoconf 
type schemes where the exception rather then rule then, so I'd hack 
everything so everything went in /bin except the config which Id put in 
/etc. A messy messy scheme.

I still btw think that the unix scheme needs to be retired and replaced 
with something like

/configs
/programs
/users
/linux

Regardless, I know a lot better now but paradoxically I rarely need to 
care, because apt-get tends to just magically work. and if I dont want the 
program anymore apt-get also just magically works.

>
> /etc/clamd.conf                  Standard place for configurations
> /etc/logrotate.d/clamd           Ditto for logrotate scripts
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/clamd           Ditto for a service controller script
> /usr/sbin/clamd                  Ditto for a non-boot system binary
> /usr/share/man/man8/clamd.8.bz2  Ditto for an administrative manual page
> /var/log/clamav/clamd.log        Ditto for a log file (logrotate and
>                                 syslog will know about this)
>
> Have you read Rute yet? That might make it clearer. Either way,
> separating me from good standard package management again will require
> hydraulic tools.
>
> Cheers; Leon
>
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