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Simplification often increases complexity
by cycoj on Sun 24th Aug 2008 00:12 UTC
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What a lot of the people here who complain about the complexity or inconsistency of the FHS don't realise, reordering actually increases complexity in a lot of cases. Take the suggestion of creating a /settings
directory and a /data directory and then have subdirectories for each user. First, how do you decide what is data what is setting? You will end up with inconsistencies. Second why does anyone think it's a good idea to keep user settings and data separate, it complicates backups for one. Or what if you want your personal things to be on a portable drive, now you have to worry about 2 directories instead of one. For what benefit? I could come up with lot more examples.

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