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On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote: |
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> No one has proposed moving everything to /usr. At the minimum, we would |
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> still have /etc and /var in /, as well as various mountpoints. If we do |
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> move those to /usr, then we effectively renamed / to /usr, which is |
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> pointless. The absurdity of mounting /usr over NFS instead of / is |
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> precisely why people are saying to just mount / (with /usr as being part |
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> of it). |
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We're drifting here, but the concept is that machine-local stuff like |
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configuration stays out of /usr, and generic distro stuff stays in |
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/usr. |
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A webserver for site1 vs site2 would be identical in /usr, but |
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different elsewhere. |
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However, that whole approach makes less sense for a distro that prides |
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itself on you being able to make every installation unique. That |
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said, if you do want to make a whole bunch of Gentoo installs the same |
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then sticking everything important in /usr and network mounting it is |
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a good way to accomplish it. |
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Rich |
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