From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S7btv-0003rg-HR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:17:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EA58E0D03; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:16:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.17]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61640E0CFD for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:16:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.52]) by qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id lC6m1i00417UAYkAACGLkv; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:16:20 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.13] ([76.106.69.86]) by omta13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id lCGK1i00Q1rgsis8ZCGL2L; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:16:20 +0000 Message-ID: <4F5FE34A.4030609@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:16:10 -0400 From: Joshua Kinard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Thunderbird/10.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Let's redesign the entire filesystem! [was newsitem: unmasking udev-181] References: <20120311022706.GA26296@linux1> <4F5C1BE9.3040609@gentoo.org> <20120311173355.GB6599@linux1> <4F5EA152.80604@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig0DDC87EC7CC37B59A1530E1C" X-Archives-Salt: ceffdb42-ab97-4436-9a85-f26d0a1c00ed X-Archives-Hash: 8901148677610be1fc557cb5cb59cfd4 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig0DDC87EC7CC37B59A1530E1C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/13/2012 07:54, James Broadhead wrote: > On 13 March 2012 01:22, Joshua Kinard wrote: >> We should be working to getting rid of /usr and bring it all back into= /, >> then create temporary /usr symlinks to point programs in the right >> direction. After all, /usr was originally for user data, not system d= ata, >> until someone cooked up /home (I don't know the full exact history her= e, so >> feel free to correct me). >> >=20 > I believe that the Art of Unix Programming* says that /usr was the > result of the original UNIX 4MB hard disk becoming full, and that they > chose /usr to mount a second one. Every definition since then has been > an attempt to justify preserving the split. Sounds like how a lot of UNIXy things came into being. This is why I thi= nk /usr should be merged back into /, not the other way around. Although, b= oth approaches essentially achieve the same effect in the end, once you move /etc and a few other bits, then point the kernel at "/usr". --=20 Joshua Kinard Gentoo/MIPS kumba@gentoo.org 4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. A= nd our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-bet= ween." --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic --------------enig0DDC87EC7CC37B59A1530E1C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPX+NKAAoJENsjoH7SXZXjf/4P/0dKZeaqZ3YzcS82vdfVkmPA T1p0L0E6kzEhSoDpqvqMbH6iR1PCglhjWaLjU/vMMY8hmdQ46jVk1gTbumD8TOVh EZoKeOTSAN5BrAwItiaIbSYgWTMgNhAQO+Fw7+UOZYilJuDtfkvNZoM2Fi8SpmCE 8tpTttXprOi5117BAFHXFPEbBtb2SJB7LefP1r6t0L4kwjCzFilxc/AiM5KFridK rOMB/PMMdVNApYG42DFbd56RuDKbzE4LnF4e62RWqiADRvjAroinX301zp2A0I+u dBrcUSGIYs4nbYeg+srBt32an7d6WCTWUUm4SpOkPj6F4JYiEsDYv1jlYLxJpqy8 RKHC1gqff5Ptr4q4zVmoTn7OqNI3XI2zq5IoV49Y1/e2nOaGqxMrmW9nnQ8OsUUj YcOclwQySIGuVjDe5pjsSVaTKvVdBKe8OFV9lUS4PwE2nbHAnTfQw+imLlgEyDeY ESn5CGQK3r2Q8kTNRsMXk9eapeUWZedbLGFumuXyBINovfwJ1U5SdcI15YtQBgwA cbJvijg7+W9pXus0LPH4nGXl8t0hhyjaMqPTo3nRJZB/yh6MfaKt11dKjzhpAq96 SnwWXQSOC6Zbcfq9R949wpZc1riR5bEipLivcWnRE6per6/YumuuRJzp0lCcI4eB FUtevHE3DcnvrfycQcN7 =2NiA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig0DDC87EC7CC37B59A1530E1C--