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On 03/14/2012 04:39, Duncan wrote: |
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> THAT is why they're moving /bin, /sbin and /lib to /usr rather than the |
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> other direction. rootfs will be ONLY a mountpoint, with even /etc/ being |
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> bind-mounted from /usr/etc, and all system data unified on /usr, |
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> including /etc. |
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> Viewed from that perspective, the direction of the "unification", |
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> everything formerly on rootfs moving to /usr, so rootfs' only function is |
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> providing the mountpoints for everything else, has a certain logic to |
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> it... |
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From one perspective, this makes sense. It actually is a kinda of holy |
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grail for administrators, because it's one less filesystem to worry about |
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backing up. |
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> And they don't care about non-initr* based systems any more than they |
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> care about non-Linux systems or for that matter, non-systemd Linux |
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> systems. That's outside their operational universe. Other people are |
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> welcome to continue working with "legacy" systems if they want, but Linux- |
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> only, systemd-based, initr*-based systems are the only thing they're |
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> interested in supporting, themselves. |
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You know, I would have no problem with this if it wasn't a decision made by |
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a single Linux distro with a huge amount of clout in the Linux world. This |
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isn't like Debian forking Firefox into Ice Weasel, an issue that largely |
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remains Debian-specific to this day. This is a change that will |
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fundamentally alter the way every distro does things, and none of us (as far |
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as I know) were given a choice in the matter. |
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The /usr move is going to happen. I, along with a lot of other people, are |
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going to have to "fix" all my installed systems over this. Not because of a |
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choice made by all distros, but because one distro thinks that its way is |
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the RightWay() and the OnlyWay(). |
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That's what I disagree with. We shouldn't be affected by this change. Only |
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Fedora users should have to deal with it. But other upstream projects are |
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going to follow in Fedora's lead, and this brings us up to a decision point: |
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adapt, or become irrelevant. |
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I chose to stick with Gentoo as my distro of choice because I didn't like |
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the way Red Hat did things years ago. As well as a few other nitpicks I |
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have. It bugs me to no end that, despite running a fairly vanilla setup on |
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a source-based distro whose original inspiration came from BSD ports, I am |
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still affected by a decision made by RH. |
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Joshua Kinard |
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Gentoo/MIPS |
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kumba@g.o |
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4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 |
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"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And |
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our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." |
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--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic |