On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 18:50:49 +0100 Enrico Weigelt <weig...@metux.de> wrote:
> I don't want to repeat all the arguments, why these Windows-imitator > guys are completely wrong, anymore. (IMHO already been said in this > thread). Yes, having a single locations for all applications is so-windows. We should go the other way then, and create a separate prefix for every application. I wonder why we removed that awesome /usr/X11R6. > If upstream really wants to stick in that silly chance, it's time for > a fork. We're already allocating about 20..30hrs per week beginning > with 2012/2 for such a project in our resource plan. This stupidity > can become really dangerous thousands of systems around the world, > so it needs to be stopped. Wow, an enterprise fork taking 20-30 hrs per week to reimplement hacks necessary for running applications randomly spread over filesystems? > BTW: the original argument (AFAIK) is that moving everything to > /usr should somehow make maintenance easier. Well, how actually ? > Perhaps for people who are too lazy to backup a few more directories ? > Silly. Enjoy sharing those few more directories over NFS. Ah, yes, only silly people want to share their systems over NFS. Enterprise admins reserve 20-30 hrs per week to keep systems in sync. > Actually, at this point, I'd raise the question why not dropping > /usr instead (in little steps). The impact is practically the > same (well, replaces the risk of unbootable system by the risk > of filling up separated / filesystems) but would remove an > then obsolete additional directory. ;-O That's because people would like to get rid of additional directories in /, not introduce additional ones. But if you really want to, we can start making random packages install on rootfs. Just let us know when they happily fill up your rootfs. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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