Do we care about /sbin /bin linked to /usr/lib ?
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Fri Sep 26 01:47:11 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 21:02 -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
> Steve Grubb wrote:
> > /sbin/lsusb uses something in /usr
>
> This could be a problem for people booting off USB devices. Mostly this is only
> used for liveCD/liveUSB, so we don't hit it, but with the rise of netbooks and
> such where people may want to boot off a USB-attached SD card, it could come up.
> I don't think it's a high priority, but if there's an easy fix, we should do it.
Nothing involved in booting off of USB requires lsusb. It's purely a
diagnostic tool. And you can get all of the information also via /proc
or /sys
> > /sbin/umount.hal uses something in /usr
>
> Is HAL supposed to be involved with system partitions? I was under the
> impression that it is not, so this doesn't need to be in /sbin.
It has to be in /sbin because mount helpers are only looked for in /sbin
Jeremy
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