On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 19:58, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Peter Jones (pjones@xxxxxxxxxx) said: >> Because we haven't decided to merge those together. That's really the only >> reason - there's no over-arching technical reason they need to be separate. >> It's entirely a historical consideration. > > Somewhere in the recesses of my memory I remember a UNIX where /bin, /lib, > and so on were just symlinks to /usr/bin, /usr/lib, and so on. There were several depending on how it was implemented. The Convex I remember having a minimal /etc and /bin and then mounting the real ones later in the boot but really in /usr/etc, /usr/bin etc. The OSF/1 systems I think did it with symlinks. But out of the weeds.. the big areas I know were using separate /usr with Fedora were disk-less systems. The /usr , /opt and some other items were NFS mounted from a central system. It was mostly a relic of how Sun had done it in the good old days but no one had come up with a better 'supported' way and so it was still in use til quite recently. /usr ends up being mounted separate mostly for business case reasons. The compliance documents say /usr on all systems in some place must be a seperate partition and until they get updated that is how it will be. On other areas it is separated out because the business software requires it or it won't install. [Yes brain dead but it is what it is.] Neither of those are really in Fedora's sphere since it is more of a cutting edge versus practical OS. [Yes that is a dig.. I am allowed one per year.] If we are going to 'break' FHS, let us do it in a large way versus a death by a thousand cuts. Change the directory names to something like: /configurations /vendor-binaries /vendor-data /user-stuff or any of the other proposals over the years to make things more intuitive in a 21st century way :). -- Stephen J Smoogen. “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."" — Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
