Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles)

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome@real-time.com> writes:

> > such reasoning could
> > be like this: "/usr/sbin/init.d/ is right because it is a binary that is not
> > boot-essential and not used by any user."
> 
> so what about /var/lib? (another directory I don't fully understand the
> reasoning behind; I'm just throwing this out as an idea).

/var is for data that cannot be shared between different machines.