On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:12 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le Ven 2 mars 2007 08:43, Laurent Rineau a écrit : > > On Friday 02 March 2007 04:32:13 Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> > "/usr is the second major section of the filesystem. /usr is > >> > shareable, read-only data. > >> > >> At one point in time, at "use-time". > >> > >> This doesn't mean the data on /usr is inaccessible to a maintainer, nor > >> does this mean /usr to be "vendor-exclusive", nor does this mean /usr > >> not to be customizable. > > > > I agree with Ralf. A read-only filesystem is not read-only for the system > > administrator: it can be turned read-write during administration stages, > > for upgrades and configurations. > > read-only means hardware read-only in some cases. > That means anything the admin must be able to change has no place there At run-time, yes. But it doesn't mean at "admin-time or installation time" and it also doesn't mean he must change something. The classical use for such situations is a "minimal installation" using a network mounted /usr from a master machine. > Therefore any %config in /usr is very optionnal stuff. The value of > allowing %config in /usr over making clear one should not depend on a rw > /usr can be debated. You could not be much wronger. Ralf -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
