On 08/06/2009 08:47:10 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: > Honestly the entire split of / and /usr, like we usually do, is just > plain stupid in the first place. It might be ok if we would put the > desktop stuff in /usr, but spreading random commandline tools and > libraries around causes nothing but trouble for no good reason. Theory says that /usr can be mounted read-only, which could improve system security for those binaries that live there or have other advantages regarding media used, storage sharing, etc. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEUSRHIERARCHY The other side of the argument is that / is supposed to be able to be kept small. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEROOTFILESYSTEM As storage gets increasingly cheaper relative to the rest of the hardware it seems most of the arguments for a separate /usr get weaker, but not all. I suppose if you have a compelling argument for re-balancing what goes where you could convince the folks on freestandards-fhs-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (At least that's where such talk went last I paid attention.) Regards, Karl <kop@xxxxxxxx> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
