On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Benjamin Lefoul <benjamin.lef...@nwise.se> wrote: >>Be clear that replacing /usr/local with a symlink in the form you describe is >>*not* compliant with the FSH. > > Actually it is, in both FHS version 2.3 and version 3.0. > > http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch04s02.html > > The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, are required in > /usr. > Directory Description > bin Most user commands > lib Libraries > local Local hierarchy (empty after main installation) > sbin Non-vital system binaries > share Architecture-independent data
Wow, thank you, good point, thanks for the correction, I was looking further down the documentation at the subdirectories. I'd written: > A symlink form /usr/local to a read-only AFS space is *not* the same > thing as symlinks for /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/etc, > /usr/local/share, /usr/local/lib, etc. Be clear that replacing > /usr/local with a symlink in the form you describe is *not* compliant > with the FSH. Not that it's not useful in your environment, but just > so you appreciate that you may have issues with core packages such as > the "filesystem" package.
