Anton Aylward wrote:
And the original idea of "/usr/share" at USG, decades ago, was that it *would* be shared via NFS. One copy on the server. So there shouldn't be anything there essential to booting.
--- I agree and complained before 13.2 was released. Was told "too bad".
So what binaries *are* under /usr/share ?
--- We are talking necessary for boot. Not binaries. They were scripts called by udev if I remember correctly. Forgive me, I don't have such instances on my system anymore.
OK. Look at it this way
If all the necessary binaries are in /bin and /lib then there's no need to have /usr available in order to boot.
Gee. Really? And asking why that wouldn't work got you ignored.
As Linda says
The dependent libs in /usr can easily be moved to /lib{,64}. I don't understand, if they wanted to have them together, they didn't move files from /usr/bin => /bin and put symlinks in /usr (same for /lib, /sbin, /lib64...etc).
This isn't crazy. What I find odd is that its the other way round!
--- Bingo. But no one was willing to provide an answer.
Do a ls -l on /bin. Look at all the stuff that's symlinked to /usr/bin.
What's the rational here? Is it that yes, the binaries needed for booting are in /bin and all these symlinks are are for things that are *not* needed for booting? Well that makes sense. But look to see what they are!
That would have been *safe* and accomplished the merge -- but no one in the /usr-merge camp could answer that question. The inability to technically justify the decision made me feel like some other reason was being hidden. That made me more than a little uncomfortable.
Well, yes, there is that.
And now, 2 years later or so, we still have naive zeolots claiming you can't boot your system w/o /usr already being mounted. Then you point out that /usr can be mounted at the beginning of boot and such a system can be as fast or faster than a system w/an initrd (7 seconds for a *server* bringing up 55 services on rotating rust). And they never really get it and continue to share their fake-news, world-view on this list. I'm sure they listen to Fox News... ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org