On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 23:23, Marco d'Itri <md@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jul 30, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> We just gave up supporting the split of tools in / vs. /usr. It does
> You did, as shown many times other distributions surely did not.
Good luck!
I'm looking forward to things like patches for the D-Bus config moving
to the rootfs. :)
> I don't even know /how/ I could stop supporting a standalone /usr: some
> distributions actually support upgrading a system to the next release,
> and this cannot require repartitioning.
Some stuff is broken for years for all non-simple services. The real
fix is just a cp -ax away, I guess. :)
As mentioned, the distro's fix is to mount /usr from initramfs, and
that's the only realistic option for /{bin,lib} vs. /usr/{bin.lib}
split, with the ever-growing use of tools from /usr during bootup.
The random split of tools tools in /{bin,lib} vs. /usr/{bin.lib} makes
no sense today, what /{bin,lib} was for UNIX is the initramfs for
Linux today.
We are actually currently planning to move all tools from the rootfs
to /usr, where they belong and sort out the chaotic split of install
locations. There will be only compat symlinks left in / then.
Kay
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