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On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 23:54 -0400, Richard Yao wrote: |
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> On 07/17/2012 07:07 PM, Olivier Crête wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 18:41 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> >> If somebody really is pushing for an all-out /usr move by all means |
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> >> speak up, but I think that basically what everybody is advocating is |
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> >> trying to follow upstream for individual packages. |
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> > As I've been saying for a while, doing a full merge of /bin, /sbin, /lib |
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> > into /usr is probably unavoidable in the long term. We should be ready |
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> > for it, and even try to do it progressively. As currently, the split is |
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> > entirely arbitrary. |
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> > |
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> > Also be ready for a merge of /bin and /sbin.. I'm sure most people can't |
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> > even explain the difference between them. |
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> > |
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> The difference is simple. You put stuff into /sbin when you do not want |
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> regular users to be able to select it via tab completion by default. |
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That's certainly not how te FHS explains it. |
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Olivier Crête |
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