On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:42:01 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> with redhat's push to move everything into /usr - why not stop right > there and move everything back into /? > > seperate /home, /var, /dev and /tmp makes sense (not counting proc, > sys for obvious reasons). But the rest? Why /usr/lib? Just /lib > would be fine. Remember how once there was a whole X11 subtree > in /usr? /usr/tmp - wtf? Just empty /usr and be happy... > > I wish I could do that... > Well at least you don't have to put up with /usr/X11 anymore :-) That took ripping out the entire XFree86 build system and replacing it with something at least half-way sane that supported --prefix I'm not too concerned with modern /usr on the whole, the layout is something I can tolerate. What *really* gets my goat up is /var/lib. Now what on this earth could /var/lib/ possibly be useful for???? Surely not libs, those go in /usr/lib or /lib. If it's variable data somehow related to libs then someone needs to look up lib in a dictionary. If it really is lib code, then my question is "how exactly is this stuff variable to warrant being in /var?" -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
