On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Guido Berhoerster
* Greg Freemyer
[2010-08-06 17:37]: I'm not clear what exactly is being proposed, but any significant shuffling of /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib will potentially impact a lot of existing installs.
Please read the last email and don't start yet another thread. We were discussing about not installing any binaries and libraries into /bin, /sbin, and /lib but rather into /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/lib. /bin and /sbin could then be symlinked to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin for compatibility reasons, /lib needs to remain as it contains other things. Upgrading from one release to another, i.e. creating symlinks would need to be handled by a scriptlet.
-- Guido Berhoerster
But that would break every existing install with /usr as a separate partition since booting requires many of the /bin,. /sbin, /lib utilities prior to /usr being mounted. Think about the kernel modules in /lib. Also, you'd totally break grub I assume if /lib became a symlink to a directory on a different partition. Far more logical to turn /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib into symlinks back to /bin, /sbin, /lib. It would add 2 or 3 GB of diskspace requirements to /, but that at least seems doable. RE: changing subject - my belief is that when the subject of a thread totally changes drastically, the subject should be updated. I did not start a new thread just changed the subject. Thus threaded email clients and the archives should keep all this together. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org