From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 620181381F3 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD3F321C0D0; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:51:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DCA7E21C0C4 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:50:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.88] (dynamic-adsl-84-220-92-220.clienti.tiscali.it [84.220.92.220]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: lu_zero) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8573233D781 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:50:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <50A903D7.5000206@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:50:47 +0100 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20121004 Thunderbird/15.0.1 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] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012] References: <20120423012540.GA2130@waltdnes.org> <20120505010529.GD22763@kroah.com> <20120509183203.GA27545@kroah.com> <4bdd949a377d40eb85590870be440551@HUBCAS1.cs.stonybrook.edu> <50A8943E.7070607@gentoo.org> <20121118080845.GA8628@kroah.com> <50A89A73.3050709@flameeyes.eu> <50A8C257.7060103@mva.name> <50A8F918.2010802@flameeyes.eu> <50A8FBC2.200@gentoo.org> <50A90009.2060109@mva.name> In-Reply-To: <50A90009.2060109@mva.name> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 314cca53-70e0-487f-b511-a7321644d3b8 X-Archives-Hash: 248d93086ae96cf67161db3e47eb9cf6 On 11/18/2012 04:34 PM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: > To be honest, in my opinion, «killing of separate /usr» can reasonable > be continued by moving all it's content to / (/usr/bin -> /bin, /usr/lib > -> lib, and so on) in despite of all objections, as it was invented just > because of disk space exhaustion. And since we have lots of wonderful file systems, a neat and interesting device mapper and a plethora of fun way to shot ourselves in the foot not only you have a separate /usr but even fun separate /usr/bin from /usr/share and other strange layout that some people prepared to solve some of their problems. The radical solution is to have a rich early boot able to do this kind of setup, for the transition you might want to not have init and udev non-workable because somebody decided that is useful using glib or some other library residing in /usr/ lu