Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib
On 12/16/2011 01:24 AM, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Hi Riku,
>
> I think an important point to consider is that /usr would not
> disappear. It could be replaced by a symlink for new installs.
> This would permit older installs to continue to use /usr, but
> the files would end up on / for new installs. So no changes
> to --prefix would be needed, and the Debian packages themselves
> could still provide files in /usr.
>
Feel free to experiment such non-sense on your own computers,
but please do not impose this to everyone.
Oh, and when I'm at it, how do you implement /usr as read only,
(over nfs for example)? This is a quite common setup in large
organization / universities.
> Doing this would be a simple change to debian-installer.
And a hell for upgrades on *a lot* of existing systems.
> It might
> require a few other minor tweaks
Yeah, right... A few other minor tweaks... Good luck with them!
Seriously, how much wrong could it go?
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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