Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[Guido Berhoerster <gber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxx> [2010-08-06 13:36]:
> On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 09:42 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:03:22 +0200
> > Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I think that /usr on nfs, or even on a different disk should just get a
> > > reality check, and be finally dropped.
> >
> > Having /usr, /var, /opt and /tmp on different partitions / disks is
> > basically a standard setup for lots of real-world corporate installations.
> >
> > The people who break such standard setups (or even think about breaking
> > them) all the time should just get a reality check...
>
> /usr not on the rootfs is broken since ages for anything that isn't a
> simple server. It does not make any sense to do that, and that's why
> nobody really cares.
>
> Many things plugging into udev/hotplug break if /usr is not available at
> early boot. I stopped asking people to fix such things.

Unfortunately an all too common attitude in Linuxland. Anyway,
can we then just be honest and officially abandon the now
arbitrary /bin /sbin -- /usr/bin /usr/sbin separation by moving
stuff and symlinking /bin and /sbin to /usr?
It's nothing uncommon, Solaris/OpenSolaris, HP-UX, and AIX for
example all don't have a separate /bin any more. It would
certainly ease the pain with linking libraries which are in /usr.

-- 
Guido Berhoerster
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