The 03/01/12, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > The problem is that one group of developers is ignoring years of history > and purpose in the separation of /bin and /usr/bin and the ability of > having a separate /usr. This is in the udev development team and they > /deliberately/ placed or used some programs in /usr/bin instead /bin and > requiring that /usr bee in the root partition.
The udev team has nothing to do with the /usr mount requirement. Lot of packages hooked themselves via udev while they had binaries or dependencies in /usr. > I will note that the historical separation of the /usr stems from the > days of user home directories being in /usr/home instead of /home. It > is getting to the point that the security aspects of having a read-only > mount for userspace executables is being overridden by developer fiat. It's a joke? -- Nicolas Sebrecht
