On Friday 06 August 2010 12:53:58 Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 06/08/10 12:28, Richard Creighton escribió:
Linux needs the standards to be
adhered to and not arbitrarily changed because it is convenient for lazy programming practices to be effected.
yeah, but the standards must make sense technically, otherwise is just Mumbo-jumbo. a notory example of such Mumbo-Jumbo is the LSB.
I think the standards set for /usr (in this case) are technically sensable unless you want to limit oS to desktop/laptop installations and have no VMs or a LAN with diskless workstations or small drives where space is a premium (eg, many older machines) where storing redundant copies of /usr on each machine is very wasteful. On VM's, the extra disk space for each VM to have a complete copy of all the /usr (Unis System Resources) files (which contain most, if not all, of the installed non-system applications like KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice, many graphics editors...etc, etc., can be huge. Allowing /usr to be remote, eg, on another partition or even on another machine, allows much savings in disk space which even today translates into money saved. Some Mumbo-Jumbo actually has value even if you don't need it yourself at the moment, you may, even likely will need it in the future. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org