On Wed, 11 May 2011 11:06:08 +0930 Rusty Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2011 08:15:57 +0100, Roger Leigh > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:47:25AM +1000, Karl Goetz wrote: > > > On Mon, 9 May 2011 10:38:42 +0100 > > > Roger Leigh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > From the FHS POV, I would like to suggest these changes: > > > > • Permit /usr to be a symlink to /. This gives distributors the > > > > option of unifying the / and /usr namespaces. This is a logical > > > > consequence of keeping / and /usr on the same filesystem. In > > > > the distant future it might be possible to eliminate /usr > > > > entirely, but at this point it would be appropriate to have the > > > > option of making it a symlink. > > > > > > Sounds like a good step. would we note that /usr could/should be > > > deprecated, or would we simply save it for a future release of > > > the FHS? > > > > It's probably a bit early for anything like deprecation. At this > > point, I think giving distributors the option of making it a > > symlink would be sufficient. My short term goal here is to allow > > the debian-installer to provide the option of merging / and /usr > > at install time by creating the symlink during initial bootstrap. > > The actual packages will continue to use /usr to permit use of a > > real /usr or a merged setup, so this should appear almost entirely > > transparent to both users and distribution packaging. > > Note that such symlinking doesn't require FHS changes; when FHS says a > directory should contain something, that something may be a symlink to > elsewhere. Hi rusty, Are you saying "If /usr is mandated by FHS, it can be a symlink to /", or "If /usr is mandated by FHS, it must be a directory and can optionally contain nothing but symlinks"? General question (for all): Would it be worth us changing the /usr section to say it may be a symlink to / under certain circumstances? kk > There may be other side-effects which require footnotes or > modifications, however: someone will have to do a thorough scan > looking for clashes. -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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