Lennart Poettering wrote: > 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. Well, sometimes the fact that something *is* standard is far more important than what the standard is. And /usr has been around for a very long time, and lots of software (an people, for that matter) know that it's there. Much of the GNU configured software by default installs in /usr/local. There has to be a very high bar for changing common practice. Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
