Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Micha?? G?rny <mgorny@g.o> schrieb:

> > I was talking about other things, like giving up the typical
> > unix-style separation of subsystems, all the bloating happening
> > in certain DE's and then pulling down that bloat to the system
> > level (just starting w/ dbus)
>
> Yes, three arguments and just a one, silly example which is basically
> incorrect assuming noone obliges you to use systemd.

IIRC, systemd is not the only system-level package depending on dbus.

> > Yes, what's the big deal ? Done that with thousands of nodes.
>
> Without initramfs?

Yes. Using PXE and nfsroot.

> Syncing rootfs over and over again or just updating
> packages installing into it once a year?

Regularily updating packages, but with quite conservative policy.
Of course, this required proper service restarts, etc,
but thats an topic on its own ...

> > > That's because people would like to get rid of additional
> > > directories in /, not introduce additional ones.
> >
> > Aha. Then why not also moving /home, /etc and /var to /usr, too ? ;-o
> > (hmm, some mindless jerks really could pick up that silly idea...)
>
> You should consider taking like 1 or 2 hours of your precious time to
> read about the use and meaning of various directories in the filesystem.

I studied FHS and its purpose somewhat >15 years ago, and I don't
want to repeat all the arguments. My argument was just: if you
wanna move /bin+co to /usr for easier maintenance, you could also
put /usr/* to / for quite the same reasons.


cu
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