On 20/03/16 08:24, Stephanie Daugherty wrote:
> I would argue vdev belongs in  / rather than /usr because it is 
> likely to be necessary to mount filesystems and such.

I absolutely agree it should go in /
> 
> The split is somewhat arbitrary these days but historically things 
> needed during the boot process and to repair the system have gone in 
> / while less essential bits have gone into /usr

I don't think the split is arbitrary, although some have worked hard to
break that structure and smear the history and wisdom of that design.

> People do still partition that way sometimes so it's a good idea not 
> to break the system for them :)

Indeed.  Thor

> 
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016, 14:14 Rainer Weikusat 
> <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> aitor_czr <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
> writes:
>> By default, PSTAT (a dependency of VDEV) is installed in 
>> "/usr/local", just as VDEV.
>> 
>> As Daniel Raurich explained in another thread:
>> 
>> [...] the "/usr/local" directory is for non-packaged local stuff 
>> [...]
>> 
>> So, should i change this configuration for those packages, or 
>> should i skip debhelper's "dh_usrlocal" script adding:
>> 
>> binary: dh binary --before dh_usrlocal dh binary --after 
>> dh_usrlocal
>> 
>> to debian/rules?
> 
> To which degree this actually makes a difference would be a good 
> question but the convention-so-far has been that distribution 
> provided stuff goes into / or /usr and that /usr/local can be used
> as seen fit by whoever controls/ administrates a particular 
> installation. If the packaged vdev is supposed to become an integral 
> part of the OS/ distribution, it should honour the existing 
> convention unless there's a good reason for not doing this. 
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