'Best Practices' for downloads ??

[Les]

On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 11:13 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 14:41 -0400, linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> >> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
> 
> > I went to the above URL what exactly are they talking about 
> > when they say: if the corresponding subsystem is installed
> > 
> >
> > The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, 
> > must be in /, if the corresponding subsystem is installed:
> > 
> > Directory	Description
> > home	User home directories (optional)
> > lib<qual>	Alternate format essential shared libraries (optional)
> > root	Home directory for the root user (optional)
> 
> If you have users on your system (e.g. it's not a single purpose
> server), then you'd have a /home directory.  Of course, there are some
> systems that had things like /usr/local/home, and various other
> variations on a theme, but /home is the FHS requirement.
> 
> If you had 64-bit systems that made use of /lib.64 (or something
> similarly named) then you'd have a /lib.64 directory.  Or i386 versus
> other CPU types.  And so on...
> 
> It is *possible* to dispense with having a /root home directory for a
> root user, or have it elsewhere.
> 
It should be mentioned that the home directory for root should always be
physically on the computer, not a shared or networked drive.
Occasionally you will want root to work on those other drives without
them being mounted, which cannot happen if the root directory is remote
mounted.

Regards,
Les H