On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Heya, > > there's one topic that keeps popping up in various discussions: can't > we get rid of /usr? The seperation of / and /usr doesn't make much > sense anymore. We could make /usr a symlink to / for an interims phase > and everything would be good for conservative folks who think the FHS > is the holy bible. > By practice separate "/" provides a minimal system that sysadmins trusts will work when anything in "/usr" breaks. Also a minimal filesystem that is quick & easy to repair/restore and can even remote mount a "/usr" if needed. You are asking to clutter "/" , What are you really trying to solve ? maybe you should work to settle standards for $HOME first that is the major pain area for a non-conservative user. ~conservatives > In the past more and more stuff has been moved from /usr to /. It's > unlikely that it's going to become less. Also, right now I am aware of > quite a few packages that don't get the seperation of / and /usr right > and rely on stuff from /usr during early bootup. > > Let's eliminate this source of errors and clean up our file system > layout a bit. Let's drop /usr for F12! > > And for the folks who think /usr is awesome because it allows mounting > /usr ro while mounting / rw: it's not. Much more useful it would be if > / in its entirety could be mounted ro. Debian allows that. It's not > too hard to make that work on fedora as well. > > We wouldn't exactly be the first system without /usr as it seems. Hurd > does that too as I was informed. That makes at least one thing they > got right. > > Let the flamefest begin! > > Lennart -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
