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Toward the docs point, nowhere in the Nix manual do they spell out the FHS acronym. It's just the Linux derivation of the standard Unix filesystem structure, so
by trynewideas 4y ago
Toward the docs point, nowhere in the Nix manual do they spell out the FHS acronym. It's just the Linux derivation of the standard Unix filesystem structure, something that I never knew had a formal name (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) or centralized authority.
That kind of re-emphasizes to me that regardless of the value Nix might offer me, I'm not and probably won't ever be the audience for it, because if it assumes I know that well enough to recognize it by acronym then it's going to assume I know a lot more than that. I can look forward to a few months of Googling and tangents just to get a grip on its fundamentals.
- viraptor 4y agoYou can't describe everything every time, at some point you need to use more concise naming for better communication. While it would be nice to improve things for beginners, this one seems pretty good already. Searching for "nix standard directory layout" brings up relevant blogs along with a Wikipedia page for FHS. Not bad.
- ajb 4y agoTo be fair, FHS isn't an acronym introduced by the nix project. It's not that well known though, so I do agree that it would make sense it introduce it. More generally, it seems that the nix documentation (including the reference docs) suffer from not having been developed systematically to introduce things in dependency order.