On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 01:14:43 +0100 Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The question was a bit more subtle. Is it OK to put things only needed > for building in /lib? Historically, that location was only for the > minimum needed to get critical programs running at boot time before /usr > was mounted. Huge disks are cheap now. The time when /usr needed to be on a separate partition has long since passed (I've never seen a system where /usr was a separate partition). I don't see the need for /usr at all now. Why don't we install everything into /? It simplifies configuring many packages as the don't need to be told --sysconfdir=/etc or --localstatedir=/var. The only downside is that for themes to work the environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS=/share needs to be set. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
