Getting rid of /usr for F12?

Lennart Poettering mzerqung at 0pointer.de
Mon Apr 20 14:40:34 UTC 2009


On Mon, 20.04.09 13:36, Matej Cepl (mcepl at redhat.com) wrote:

> 
> On 2009-04-16, 23:58 GMT, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > In the past more and more stuff has been moved from /usr to /. 
> 
> I have this in /:
> 
> bin         The Right Thing to have
> dev         The Right Thing to have
> home        The Right Thing to have
> lib64       Oh well, multilib junk
> media       mostly empty, somehow good to have
> opt         empty, could be useful for some weirdos
> root        hmm, why don't we have /home/root ?
> selinux     shouldn't it be /sys/selinux ?
> sys         hopeless effort to eliminate /proc
> usr
> boot        necessary for many booting scenarios
> etc         The Right Thing to have
> lib         probably as well
> lost+found  FS related
> mnt         historical reasons, conflicts with /media
> proc        The Right Thing to have
> sbin        probably good to have
> srv         good for servers, we should suppport it more IMHO
> tmp         The Right Thing to have
> var         The Right Thing to have
> 
> I see only /selinux and /sys as strange (and probably needless), 
> /opt questionable, and /mnt and /media as conflicting; otherwise, 
> I don't see big push to root.
> 
> What are you talking about?

Nowadays stuff like dbus, glib, libpng, the ALSA libs, ... install in
/. That's what I mean.

Lennart

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