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 AB2BA1381FA for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:21:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 716DB21C00B; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:20:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ea0-f169.google.com (mail-ea0-f169.google.com [209.85.215.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DA6B421C00B for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:19:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f169.google.com with SMTP id a12so4767769eaa.14 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 04:19:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=q4gFHOugricDdJlW4pNjbm+zARMgDY8w5EVmT9m0DQo=; b=PW+80digEpc3MtyMtVVsUSU5H0/EKRYHTzgQwz0o7QAnii1u5nmydfyHvp5mACOraO YY6eWGrAQXwk+EdVEvjRe8slioz7OduqDwODClwgLakge8NniCVVcZ0bdaMmD4ZkIPcB 2gZtORiS+/iB1nzri8Gq+KdLf0k7b2BOyc2mW4S1cYy7I2n2uEtCKs/rRNtAn38cy6GP vXE0zEta1fOYyGaKUhEITKeXViRuQ0f441mSj4sHJ2JloVWJ0k6cRBq7HpW9XO9mjRJk P2uSDMi+d3lAtHBARYT/qWcqiBVjGeZE/HoFxmyTTqVyo81l58sDToJomDGxt3/I9YV3 CGhQ== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.0.133 with SMTP id 5mr101531776eeb.29.1356869984442; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 04:19:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.14.193 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 04:19:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1880997.fTFzvJL3rQ@bluering> References: <20121228185328.2a97f50f@kc-sys.chadwicks.me.uk> <1880997.fTFzvJL3rQ@bluering> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 20:19:44 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Should /usr be merged with /? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?) From: Mark David Dumlao To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: d0d2721f-ccb5-4580-aa65-14c7b4e02b7d X-Archives-Hash: 6070392e096677a3f0c2cb30c18612eb On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Paul Colquhoun wrote: > I'd certainly be happy "fixing" FHS to say that tools for mounting and > recovering "essential system partitions" be located in /, and that these > "essential system partitions" contain the tools for mounting and recovering > non-essential partitions. The beef with the comment on /home being nonessential is besides the point, /usr, /var, or /opt could have been some special case FUSE filesystem, making it still impossible to predict which files _should_ be in /. The more relevant matter here is that plan FHS, in combination with FUSE, makes that difficult. -- This email is: [ ] actionable [ ] fyi [x] social Response needed: [ ] yes [x] up to you [ ] no Time-sensitive: [ ] immediate [ ] soon [x] none