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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:36:33
Message-Id: 20120105193024.GA8291@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by Kent Fredric
1 On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 07:27:49AM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > 2012/1/5 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
3 > >
4 > > >>>>> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > >>
6 > > There's really nothing pointless or blurry about this separation.
7 > > The FHS has a nice definition: "The contents of the root filesystem
8 > > must be adequate to boot, restore, recover, and/or repair the system."
9 > >
10 >
11 > Given that these tools are being moved to /usr and/or duplicated to in
12 > initrd , what is the point of a root filesystem anyway now? Just to
13 > mount other things on? Just to store /etc ?
14 >
15 > Or will /etc move to /usr too?
16
17 No, /etc isn't going anywhere.
18
19 William

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>