Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>]

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On 08/06/2010 12:11 PM, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> > > > On 08/06/2010 at 3:55 PM, "Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > That would be the appropriate move, of course. If a separate /usr partition 
> > is no longer supported,
> > its better if /usr is removed completely, in order to avoid confusions.
> >
> > And of course, the documentation has to be changed. For example, chapter 
> > IV.20,
> >
> > The Directory Structure
> >
> >
> > /usr
> >
> >     /usr has nothing to do with users, but is the acronym for UNIX system 
> > resources. The data in
> > /usr is static, read-only data that can be shared among various hosts 
> > compliant with the Filesystem
> > Hierarchy Standard (FHS). This directory contains all application programs 
> > and establishes a
> > secondary hierarchy in the file system. KDE4 and GNOME are also located 
> > here. /usr holds a number of
> > subdirectories, such as /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local, and /usr/share/doc.
>
> It could only be propely shared between computers of the same arch anyhow... 
> On my system most binaries in there are elf64, which would certainly not
> run on other computers here... so sharing using NFS would be impossible 
> anyway (this is ok for /usr/lib, as there we split /usr/lib64 again).

I don't really get this argument. Why wouldn't you have 32- and 64-bit
/usr's that get exported to the different arches?

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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