Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham <nott...@redhat.com> said: > Peter Jones (pjo...@redhat.com) said: > > Because we haven't decided to merge those together. That's really the only > > reason - there's no over-arching technical reason they need to be separate. > > It's entirely a historical consideration. > > Somewhere in the recesses of my memory I remember a UNIX where /bin, /lib, > and so on were just symlinks to /usr/bin, /usr/lib, and so on.
On Tru64 (aka Digital Unix aka OSF/1 aka ...), /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin, and /lib to /usr/lib (but shared libraries are in /shlib and /usr/shlib, and they are separate; the lib directory is primarily for compiling). All the stuff needed for early booting is in /sbin (separate from /usr/sbin). I don't even think you can install with /usr (or /var) on the same filesystem as /. However, with AdvFS, the root file domain is special (with extra restrictions due to the bootloader and other things), so you really don't want anything else in there. -- Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
