On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 13:11 +0300, Serge wrote: > 2012/10/9 tim.lauridsen wrote: > > >> So you make your system incompatible with every other Linux distro out > >> there, and with all existing documentation, but to what end? Tidyness? > > Tidyness, simplicity, new features... Incompatible with older, but > compatible with newer distros. That's close to what Solaris does on > its livecd and really close to what Android does on mobile phones. As my favourite American folk saying goes: 'close' only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. :) A proposal to change the filesystem that was synchronized with and planned to continue to be identical to (or at least fully compatible with) how it's done in Android and Solaris, with the participation of Google and Oracle, would be a more interesting proposal than 'let's just do something kind of like what they're doing, but not the same, on our own, not co-ordinating with them'. It might still face a lot of resistance, but it'd be _more_ interesting. > Turning /lib into /usr/lib was also incompatible with every other Linux > distro, nevertheless it's already done. As was already said, that change also had clear concrete benefits; the incompatibility was acknowledged as a drawback, but the benefit was traded off against the drawback, and it won. Your proposal seems short on clear concrete benefits, but still has all the drawback. Other distros are now adopting /usr move, which is kind of what we expected to happen, so that drawback will go away. They'd be less likely to adopt a change like this, made for the sake of 'neatness'. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
