On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 09:20:31AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Rainer Weikusat wrote: > > Clarke Sideroad <clarke.sider...@gmail.com> writes: > > > So I've been thinking more about this as to why? > > > > > > It is quite obvious that it is driven by Redhat to be the same as Oracle > > > Solaris, they say as much. > > > > That's "quite obviously" an after-the-fact justification and the > > corresponding freedesktop.org text, > > > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken/ > > > > (still) quite plainly states that udev (it names no other examples) is > > developed based on the assumption that / and /usr reside on the same > > device and that any bug reports regarding this are WONTFIXes. IOW, > > that's a policy decision certain people originally made for "their > > systems" which is now forced on everybody else. > > Reading the above link, and also this discussion > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ > > it appears there are two aspects considered: > > 1. Merging the longstanding directories for executables: /bin /sbin /usr/bin > /usr/sbin > 2. Making libraries in /usr/lib and friends available at boot time. > > Gobo Linux, to take one example, has been doing the first > since its inception. Executables are left in the original > build directory, and symlinked to /bin. The same approach > with libraries, so that packages can be uninstalled by > simply removing the directory, and cleaning the symlinks.
And there's even a handy command for managing this: stow. And it's even a package in the devuan repositories! -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
