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The 03/01/12, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: |
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> The problem is that one group of developers is ignoring years of history |
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> and purpose in the separation of /bin and /usr/bin and the ability of |
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> having a separate /usr. This is in the udev development team and they |
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> /deliberately/ placed or used some programs in /usr/bin instead /bin and |
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> requiring that /usr bee in the root partition. |
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The udev team has nothing to do with the /usr mount requirement. Lot of |
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packages hooked themselves via udev while they had binaries or |
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dependencies in /usr. |
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> I will note that the historical separation of the /usr stems from the |
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> days of user home directories being in /usr/home instead of /home. It |
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> is getting to the point that the security aspects of having a read-only |
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> mount for userspace executables is being overridden by developer fiat. |
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It's a joke? |
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Nicolas Sebrecht |
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