On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:38:13AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > /opt is a location filled with vendor detritus on a lot of systems - > sometimes managed by rpms, sometimes not. It's not uncommon to have /opt > automounted via nfs. Additionally, on some workstastion systems /opt is > a separate drive managed by the 'local admin' of the machine and filled > with whatever 3rd party software they need for their instance. /opt being network shared seems like a reasonable thing to support. > /usr is frequently given different mount options (like noatime, for > example) or mounted readonly to prevent unnecessary writes to the > system. That doesn't require it to be a separate partition. > Additionally, since our software in fedora has a trickle down impact on > users in rhel-land I think you'll find that this will have to be done, > eventually for them. "We have to support it because users want it" is a poor argument. We have to understand why people want it to be a separate partition and then decide whether the simplest way (in terms of overall engineering effort) to support those desires is by supporting it as a separate partition. So far nobody's come up with a terribly plausible reason for why /usr should be separate. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
