'Best Practices' for downloads ??

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On Friday 06 April 2007, 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.

Lets see if I have this.  What they mean by the 

...the corresponding subsystem... is the three directories 
listed below from the documentation.

Directory       Description
home    User home directories (optional)
lib<qual>       Alternate format essential shared libraries 
(optional)
root    Home directory for the root user (optional)

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