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From: Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Should /usr be merged with /? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?)
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:21:12
Message-Id: CAG2nJkNhbNkowvc9sYf+wBu5VBeBXBocEP=bOfg6Nsv6eRnhaA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: Should /usr be merged with /? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?) by Paul Colquhoun
1 On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Paul Colquhoun
2 <paulcol@×××××××××××××××××.au> wrote:
3 > I'd certainly be happy "fixing" FHS to say that tools for mounting and
4 > recovering "essential system partitions" be located in /, and that these
5 > "essential system partitions" contain the tools for mounting and recovering
6 > non-essential partitions.
7
8 The beef with the comment on /home being nonessential is besides the
9 point, /usr, /var, or /opt could have been some special case FUSE
10 filesystem, making it still impossible to predict which files _should_
11 be in /. The more relevant matter here is that plan FHS, in
12 combination with FUSE, makes that difficult.
13
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Re: Should /usr be merged with /? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?) Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@××××××××.uk>