Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)
Le vendredi 10 mai 2013 à 14:46 +0100, Roger Leigh a écrit :
> > There are various benefits, discussed before at length (here,
> > elsewhere). Suggesting/summarizing this as "satisfying Lennart" is a bit
> > telling.
>
> It's still entirely accurate though. This is ultimately being driven by
> uncooperative upstreams unwilling to maintain their stuff properly, and
> this really means udev, and this is part of systemd for better or worse.
> Well, worse.
This is just a story you like to tell yourself. Give you an enemy for a
good crusade for the “right” (way of developing a UNIX system) instead
of working yourself on making things better.
> Ensuring /usr is mounted at boot time is one thing. It provides
> certain very useful guarantees which we currently don't have. Merging
> / and /usr is another matter entirely, and it's just one of several
> increasingly bizarre and technically questionable decisions coming
> from the Fedora camp of late.
Once /usr is mounted at boot time, what does it change?
Once / and /usr are treated the same way, why should you care about
whether a given binary lives under / or /usr? What is the impact?
> How are those udev replacement projects coming along? Something else
> to think about for jessie.
Why should we care? We need one udev implementation that works
correctly, not seven that don’t.
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