On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 00:14, William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:45:39PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Why not go the other way and move things that udev needs from /usr to /?
>
> That would be an easier transition imho than moving everything to /usr.
Because many of these tools have dependencies on libs in /usr, or
config in /usr/share. It's a game we can not win realistically, we
will need to move too much stuff to /, which makes the entire idea of
splitting / and /usr in the first place moot.
What's not needed today is stuff in /. We can think of /usr a /System.
The entire system is installed in one single directory, and that can
be mounted r/o, or even shared between many hosts/guest. The stuff on
the rootfs is always host-only then.
Kay
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