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From: Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] udev and /usr
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:18:07
Message-Id: CAO38tUpzCHUShvfe7mc=0_yaDfQuFb31gj2EFTGv-=GzaLd=pQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] udev and /usr by Joshua Kinard
1 On 19 September 2011 16:07, Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o> wrote:
2 [...]
3 > Yes, but some of us don't even want to have that initramfs built into our
4 > kernels.  And no one, other than freedesktop.org* and a few people on
5 > linux-hotplug-devel*, said everything belongs in /usr.  FHS clearly defines
6 > the roles for /, /bin, /sbin, /lib*, /usr, /var, /home, /tmp and the virtual
7 > fses.  Plus others.
8 >
9 > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
10 > http://marc.info/?l=linux-hotplug&m=131206447302056&w=2
11 >
12 > Really, MacOS's filesystem layout is not something anyone in their right
13 > mind should deign to mimic/copy.
14
15 I didn't get that from either of the links you posted. Seems to me the
16 systemd developers are looking at the split as a host-specific / vs
17 host-independent /usr.
18 --
19 Arun Raghavan
20 http://arunraghavan.net/
21 (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] udev and /usr Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o>