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From: Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 19:50:24 +0100
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:12:18 +0100
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:

> >>>>> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Michał Górny wrote:
> 
> >> What mistakes?
> 
> > The mistake of introducing a pointless separation based on a rule of
> > thumb which becomes more and more blurry over time, and hacking
> > packages just to make it work.
> 
> There's really nothing pointless or blurry about this separation.
> The FHS has a nice definition: "The contents of the root filesystem
> must be adequate to boot, restore, recover, and/or repair the system."

Why don't we have sshd there then? I don't really feel like repairing
remote system without fallback sshd.

And a compiler. If I mess up some important system component, I'd really
use one. And package manager. And backup system libraries...

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
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References:
Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
-- Olivier Crête
Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
-- William Hubbs
Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
-- Fabian Groffen
Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
-- William Hubbs
Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
-- Fabian Groffen
Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
-- William Hubbs
Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
-- Thomas Sachau
Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
-- Michał Górny
Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
-- Thomas Sachau
Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
-- Michał Górny
Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
-- Fabian Groffen
Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
-- Michał Górny
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