Karl Goetz said on Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:47:25AM +1000: > > But all of the existing issues identified by having the separation > > fail to address an even bigger issue: sharing /usr is entirely > > incompatible with a modern package manager, and this has always been > > the case. See: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/01/msg00152.html > > Thanks for the references. Re-reading the posts I realise i'd already > read them and it was good to be reminded about them. > Given these (4) links and related discussion I can't think of any > reason to keep /usr/ separate other then any issues embedded people > might have with them merged. If it won't cause issues for embedded dev > then I'd say we should merge /usr into / too.
I'm systematically separating /usr (and /var for what matters) on a dedicated partition. Could be for the LVM non-LVM reason, the difference of FS types, and having a FS which can be filled without putting at risk the rest of the system, or broken separately. Maybe old Unix habits, showing my age, but I never regretted to have done so on the systems I'm managing. I still think it's too early to decide to merge / and /usr in a standard such as the FHS. My 2 eurocents, Bruno. -- Open Source & Linux Profession Lead EMEA / http://opensource.hp.com HP/Intel/Red Hat Open Source Solutions Initiative / http://www.hpintelco.net http://www.HyPer-Linux.org http://mondorescue.org http://project-builder.org La musique ancienne? http://www.musique-ancienne.org http://www.medieval.org
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