On Fri, 17.04.09 06:48, Ralf Corsepius (rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Lennart Poettering 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. > > This is a very short-sighed view. Oh, is it? >> 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. > > Religiousity isn't the point - The point is: There are reasons for why > the FHS rsp. the GNU standards are setup the way they are. First of all FHS is not a "GNU standard". Secondly, it is of course very convincing if you just nebulously say 'there are rasons' instead of mentioning any. >> 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. > You are oversimplifying. > > Mounting / ro: will never work (/var, /tmp, /etc etc.) , while mounting > /usr ro: should be pretty simply. On Debian /etc doesn't need to be rw. And it wouldn't be too difficult to allow the same on Fedora. /tmp and /var should of course be mounted writable. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
