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On 2012-03-13 08:13, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> I've also thought about this and I also want to ask why? |
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Hm... me too? :-) |
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> I stopped using a separate /usr on my workstations a long time ago when |
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> I realized it was pointless. The days of 5M hard disks when the entire |
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Ok, you realized it was pointless for *you*, right? It's not a universal |
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fact, as far as I can see... Recall the previous discussion about this |
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very same subject, where I compared unix to "lego"? Flexibility is the |
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keyword here, I think, that some of us do not want to forego. For |
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instance I can very well see myself indulging in some SSDs that I could |
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put in my 'puter where one is dedicated for /usr, one for /var and one |
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for the root file system, whereas I would keep a big normal HDD for /home... |
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In my opinion there's a lot of "hand waving" that basically says |
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something like "on a modern desktop system, complex software is needed, |
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therefore /usr needs to be on the root file system (or mounted via |
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initrd)"... and states this as a universal fact, without answering the |
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question "Why?". Isn't it those who wants to change that should answer |
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why they want to change? And I trust Poetterings/Sievers answer why it |
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needs to change as far as I can throw either of them (I'm quite weak)... |
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it's all tied in neatly into their (IMO) overly complex software. |
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Hm, if we want to be modern, perhaps we should abolish partitions |
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altogether and put everything in the cloud? That would be "modern", |
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right? ;-) |
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I'm running a decent desktop system (Xfce4) and I have /usr on a |
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separate partition without any initrd... Why would I need to change this |
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(except from being forced if I continue to use udev)? So far the only |
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technical reason I've heard that somehow requires udev to have access to |
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files in /usr is a bluetooth keyboard. Anything else that *needs* to be |
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working during boot (before a separate /usr can be mounted)? And in my |
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opinion, if a keyboard needs complex software to work then it's broken |
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by design. |
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But I digress, I really should start coding my own solutions, as Canek |
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says... |
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Best regards |
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Peter K |
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