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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:33:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120319233339.22a2598d@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120320010404.3014fd68@khamul.example.com>

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On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:04:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> - */bin vs */sbin is one. Nothing to do with security, but */sbin can
>   go in root's PATH and apps that only makes sense when run as root (eg
>   mkfs) go there. This avoids cluttering the display with useful crap
>   from tab-completion.

Agreed

> - / vs /usr/local. I like this one, everything I build and install
>   myself without help from the package manager goes here. On FreeBSD it
>   means I used ports to install the stuff and it's not in world. I do
>   need this distinction in my world. Perl CPAN too for the same reasons.

That too, or you can move all system stuff from /usr to / and put user
stuff in a directory with an appropriate name, something that reflects
its purpose, maybe something like /usr.

> - /opt. Um yeah, OK. So we have these things called proprietary apps
>   where devs just want to make a directory specially for their app and
>   dump everything belong it. OK, as a scheme, it works. I don't like
>   it but I don't have a better idea.

Yep.
 
> / vs /usr is the only one I don't need myself, as /usr is not read-only
> (a very valid use case) and I don't have thin clients on the network.

Separating system and user-compiled/installed software makes sense.
Separating root and general programs makes sense.
Separating system programs and libraries based on fairly arbitrary, and
moveable, criteria does not make sense to me.

As for making /usr read-only; it is generally only writeable by root and
anyone with the root password could remount rw anyway, so there's not much
point there.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Ninety-Ninety Rule Of Project Schedules - The first ninety percent of
the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent
takes the other ninety percent of the time.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-19 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 110+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-17  4:11 [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-17  4:19 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-17  4:37   ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-17  4:53     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-17  5:19 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-17  6:25 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-03-17 11:53   ` [gentoo-user] systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ] Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-18  0:48     ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-03-18  1:45       ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-18  2:12         ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-03-18  2:41           ` Joshua Murphy
2012-03-18  2:52             ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-18  2:20         ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-18  2:30           ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-18  3:02         ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-18  3:27           ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-18  8:02         ` Graham Murray
2012-03-18  8:49           ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-18 11:23             ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-18 19:25               ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-18 19:48                 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-18 19:54                 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-18 19:59                 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-03-19 13:33             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-19 13:57               ` Michael Mol
2012-03-18 13:15         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-18 13:56           ` Dale
2012-03-18 22:23           ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-18 22:35             ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-19 22:58               ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-19 23:18                 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-21  4:40                   ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-21 14:29                     ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-21 16:02                       ` Michael Mol
2012-03-21 22:55                         ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-22  1:35                           ` Michael Mol
2012-03-22 21:13                             ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-22 22:07                               ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-23  1:27                               ` Michael Mol
2012-03-29  6:52                           ` J. Roeleveld
2012-03-19 13:30         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-18  2:48       ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-18  2:57         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-18  4:17           ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-18  7:28             ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-19 13:20               ` Eliezer Croitoru
2012-03-19 13:49                 ` Alex Schuster
2012-03-19 13:13         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-19 14:33           ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-19 23:11             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-17  8:00 ` [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! Andrea Conti
2012-03-17 12:03   ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-19 13:17   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-19 13:27     ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-19 23:04     ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-19 23:33       ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2012-03-19 23:49         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-20  1:13           ` wdk@moriah
2012-03-20  8:41             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-17 11:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-17 12:05   ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-17 12:50 ` Tanstaafl
2012-03-17 12:54   ` Eliezer Croitoru
2012-03-17 14:03     ` Peter Humphrey
2012-03-18  9:52       ` Dale
2012-03-18 18:01         ` Eliezer Croitoru
2012-03-18 20:39           ` Dale
2012-03-18 22:28             ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-19  0:30               ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-19  2:03                 ` William Kenworthy
2012-03-19 13:40                   ` Eliezer Croitoru
2012-03-19 13:56                   ` Alex Schuster
2012-03-29  9:35                     ` [gentoo-user] chicken/eff issue with suspend-to-disk/hibernate problem [Was: The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!] J. Roeleveld
2012-03-29 10:40                       ` wdk@moriah
2012-03-29 13:51                         ` J. Roeleveld
2012-03-29 14:04                           ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29 23:05                             ` wdk@moriah
2012-03-18 17:30     ` [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! Tanstaafl
2012-03-17 14:08   ` Jarry
2012-03-19 13:25   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-17 15:10 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-17 17:36   ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-17 17:58     ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-17 18:38   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-03-17 19:40     ` pk
2012-03-17 20:09       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-03-17 20:28         ` pk
2012-03-18  9:51           ` Dale
2012-03-18 13:03             ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-18 13:52               ` Dale
2012-03-19 13:22         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-18 11:44       ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-03-17 20:15   ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2012-03-18  0:43     ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-18  2:18       ` William Kenworthy
2012-03-18  3:57       ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-18  6:30         ` Michael Mol
2012-03-18  7:26           ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-18  7:54             ` Michael Mol
2012-03-18 12:01               ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-18 12:47                 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-03-18 13:23                   ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-18 14:08                     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-03-18 13:29           ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-18 17:38             ` Tanstaafl
2012-03-29  9:48           ` J. Roeleveld
2012-03-18 13:27         ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-17 23:02   ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2012-03-18  8:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2012-03-19  9:48 ` Helmut Jarausch

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