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From: Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:43:52
Message-Id: 20121219174154.62250cf2@kc-sys.chadwicks.me.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement by Greg KH
1 On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:13:28 -0800
2 Greg KH <gregkh@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > No, not at all, please see the web page that describes, in detail, the
5 > problems that has been going on for quite some time now, with the /usr
6 > and / partitions and packages.
7 > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
8 >
9 > One good solution to this issue is to move everything into /usr, and
10 > that's something that has wonderful benifits in the long run, and is
11 > something that I expect all Linux distros to eventually implement.
12 > Those that don't, will suffer because of it.
13 >
14 > Again, see the web page for why moving stuff into /usr is a good idea
15 > for the reasons behind this.
16 > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge
17
18 If either of those links allowed comments, the story they told would be
19 very different.
20
21 From memory notice how the second link skimps over the main driving
22 force (point 4 again from memory).