Re: options: was Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:55:18PM -0700, Gordon Haverland wrote:
> I'm a UN*X dinosaur. I started using UN*X in 1984.
>
> I don't like this idea of folding /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin into
> /usr/bin.
>
> I think the reasons to segregate /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin
> and anything in /usr/local/* still exist today.
What are those reasons?
I agree with /usr/local being separate, but /bin and /usr/bin?
What is the advantage to having them separate on a running
system? Other than historical practice?
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/01/msg00152.html
gives a bunch of historical uses which are no longer useful.)
I don't agree with the Fedora strategy of migrating /bin to
/usr/bin etc. I think if anything we should do what would make
most sense in the long run, which would be to eliminate /usr
entirely and most the content of /usr to /. Migrating to /usr
is a bit simpler for partitioning, but not particularly logical.
> I want more segregation, not less. Actually, I've wanted all the
> config for /usr to be in /etc/usr (which is a symlink to /usr/etc)
> for a long time.
On a system managed with a package manager, this makes no sense--
the content of /usr is intimately tied to the content of /etc.
In other contexts it might be useful, but for Debian it is not.
Regards,
Roger
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