On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:59:26PM +0200, Johannes Poehlmann wrote: > PROPOSAL [V3]: lsb library and lsb loader location (also IA64) > Version 3 is changed due to input from George and Doug. > Runtime libraries can not live in /usr, because they could be needed > before /usr is mounted at system startup. This has been taken in > question by Thomas Sippel. > > My answer is that we want not set arbitrary limits to > LSB applications and LSB systems. Ok, on System X /usr is mounted > early enough, but do we want to enforce this system behaviour ?
i think thomas meant something else. he argued that everything that is specificly needed for bootup should be seperated and unless a library is designed to be used in the bootup process it should always go into /usr "could be needed" is not good enough for that. my personal take on the subject is, that / and /usr/ should be interchangeable. don't force me to put stuff into / just because your system needs it (and vice versa). for the linker it should not make a difference anyways. so why hardcode it at all? greetings, martin. -- by the end of 2001 i'd like to find a new job anywhere in the world, doing pike development and/or training and/or unix and roxen system administration. -- pike programmer Traveling in New Zealand (www|db).hb2.tuwien.ac.at unix (iaeste|bahai).or.at (www.archlab|iaeste).tuwien.ac.at systemadministrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org mud.at is.(schon.org|root.at) Martin B"ahr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
