On Thursday 26 Jul 2012 05:13:39 Damjan wrote: > > If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr > > superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved out > > of /usr, not moved in. > > well no > the point is to have a single top-level directory for a single purpose. > > so distribution provided files will go to /usr, local-system > configuration in /etc, /run is for runtime state, /var is the > local-system state (the non-ephemeral state). > > > Let me paste this here: > » > The merged directory /usr, containing almost the entire vendor- supplied > operating system resources, offers us a number of new features regarding > OS snapshotting and options for enterprise environments for network > sharing or running multiple guests on one host. Most of this is much > harder to accomplish, or even impossible, with the current arbitrary > split of tools across multiple directories. > > With all vendor-supplied OS resources in a single directory /usr they > may be shared atomically, snapshots of them become atomic, and the file > system may be made read-only as a single unit. > « > > Well, /opt would have to go soon, too > > Why will /opt have to go? I always though /opt was for installing custom software which you do not want to mix with other software (for example I have MATLAB and similar stuff installed there with each of them in its separate folder) and I guess, that is the one and only use of /opt and there is no other directory which does something similar, except for if you are talking about /local but then, /local has the purpose of being /local, it can be vendor- supplied local program which are specific to the machine and it will have /bin /etc /lib and stuff? -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
