-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010-08-06 15:27, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
* Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> [2010-08-06 13:36]:
sr 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.
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. But now, if it can't go to a separate partition, it can no longer be shared. Wrong documentation. Bugzilla? What about the FHS? Does it has to be changed? Do we adhere to it or not? - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxcFFAACgkQU92UU+smfQVZ1ACeKP5sx8uOF/GfmZAHPqXDgVCc oewAoIYJ5VgQEWvZ+sSqw9dBNb2q+BV+ =YrcM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org