Baho Utot wrote:
> Some distributions are doing the following:
>
>
> moving all the files in /bin to /usr/bin then symlinking /bin to /usr/bin
> moving all the files in /sbin to /usr/bin then symlinking /sbin to /usr/sbin
> moving all the files in /lib to /usr/lib then symlinking /lib to /usr/lib
> moving all the files in /lib64 to /usr/lib64 then symlinking /lib to
> /usr/lib64
>
> Is LFS going to follow this?
I've been thinking about it. We really would only need in Section 6.5
change:
mkdir -pv /{bin,boot,etc/{opt,sysconfig},home,lib,mnt,opt,run}
mkdir -pv /{media/{floppy,cdrom},sbin,srv,var}
mkdir -pv /usr/{,local/}{bin,include,lib,sbin,src}
to
mkdir -pv /{boot,etc/{opt,sysconfig},home,mnt,opt,run}
mkdir -pv /{media/{floppy,cdrom},srv,var}
mkdir -pv /usr/{,local/}{bin,include,lib,sbin,src} (unchanged)
ln -sv /usr/lib /lib
ln -sv /usr/sbin /sbin
ln -sv /usr/bin /bin
I haven't tried it, but will after LFS 7.2 is released.
> What are the advanages/disadvanages?
For the user, it doesn't make any difference. For the developers, they
don't have to worry about some things being in the / directories and
others in the /usr directories. It really doesn't make any sense to
keep things split in the age of large disks. On my system the three /
directories add up to only 34M.
> Also systemd seems to be the way they are also going
> Is LFS following this also or will it remain sysinitv ?
> What are the advanages/disadvanages?
sytemd is a solution looking for a problem. In the world of the large
distros, about 1% of the users need it, so of course they force it on
everyone so they only need to maintain one system. It is quite opaque
and requires (I think) an initrd. It would add about 6 libraries to the
basic LFS system. It is harder to understand or troubleshoot and slower
to boot than an LFS system.
systemd offers a lot of problems and little benefit for LFS users, so it
will probably be a long time, if ever, that we will support it.
-- Bruce
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