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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: ulm@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:50:07
Message-Id: 20120104195024.100993ff@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:12:18 +0100
2 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > >>>>> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Michał Górny wrote:
5 >
6 > >> What mistakes?
7 >
8 > > The mistake of introducing a pointless separation based on a rule of
9 > > thumb which becomes more and more blurry over time, and hacking
10 > > packages just to make it work.
11 >
12 > There's really nothing pointless or blurry about this separation.
13 > The FHS has a nice definition: "The contents of the root filesystem
14 > must be adequate to boot, restore, recover, and/or repair the system."
15
16 Why don't we have sshd there then? I don't really feel like repairing
17 remote system without fallback sshd.
18
19 And a compiler. If I mess up some important system component, I'd really
20 use one. And package manager. And backup system libraries...
21
22 --
23 Best regards,
24 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>