Filesystem Hierarchy

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(3rd Jun, 2013 06:07 AM)rbellamy Wrote:  Log files are in variously unusual places as well:
XBMC => /home/xbian/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log
NZBGet => /home/xbian/nzbget.log
CouchPotato => /usr/local/etc/couchpotato/logs/CouchPotato.log
etc....

I'd love to turn my understanding of this topic into a wiki page for the rest of the community - if I can get some understanding.

this has nothing to do with the debian "way", but no guideline knowledge on our side.

of course the points you written should be fixed. rise an issue on github under particular repo please.

anyhow the decade old rules (which debian still follows and mixes with new approaches) should be followed and like:

non-distro packages with prefix /usr/local for binaries, I like to have all conf files in /etc/, service configs in /etc/default and logs under /var/log .

the xbmc is really specific, due to cross platform support they decided to have all inside users home as you see. this is not XBIAN's invention !

it;s the same on MacOS, linux, ATV (IOS) etc.

what is important, all xbian files starting from beta1 are distributed via .deb packages, so no untracked files should be left all over the system.

opt is on the contrary used and created by broadcom engineers for platform libs and bins.