Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

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On Mar 24, 2014, at 6:27 AM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 10:56:13PM +0100, lee wrote:
>> 
>> There`s nothing weird or exotic about it.  I`ve always had /usr on its
>> own partition until the F17 installer refused that, which it shouldn`t
>> have.
> 
> I'm sorry but the installer denying /usr on its own partition on F17 is
> the right thing to do.  I believe F17 introduced something called
> usr-move, meaning all the binaries in /bin /sbin are actually
> hardlinks/symlinks to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin.  I believe this was a
> multi-distribution effort.  In such a configuration, there is no
> justification or gain of putting it in a separate partition, on top of
> that the booting process becomes quite complicated.

That's all correct.


Chris Murphy

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