[fhs-discuss] on the /*/local/ hierarchies

[Martin Bähr]

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 07:57:20PM -0400, toobuntu wrote:
> Also, I thought the "shared" part of the definition for /usr/share
> refers to shared among multiple users of the local machine. The prior
> discussion about this seemed to assume it means exported as a network
> filesystem. Can we get more clarity about this?

how did you get that idea?
everything except your home directory is shared among all users of the
local machine. to use share as you describe it would have to be empty.

i think "The /usr/share hierarchy is for all read-only architecture
independent data files. This hierarchy is intended to be shareable among
all architecture platforms of a given OS" is clear enough. also "data
that doesn't need to be modified" should make it obvious that it can't
be for user data. (which i guess you mean with "shared among multiple
users")

greetings, martin.
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