Last month at the MHVLUG meeting I was asking a couple of people about whether they knew about the current movement by Red Hat/Fedora to consolidate binary directories as follows:
/bin -> /usr/bin /sbin -> /usr/sbin /lib -> /usr/lib /lib64 -> /usr/lib64 I've been following quite a long discussion on [debian-devel] on the subject, which is how I first learned about it. I've now found a couple of web pages that explains the planned transition: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove https://lwn.net/Articles/477467/ Apparently there are upstream changes going into several packages including 'udev' which are going to make the consolidation into /usr a requirement, or a pain to maintain otherwise, which is why several distributions are having a lot of discussion on this topic. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Feb 1 - Home Networking Made Simple with Amahi Home Server Mar 7 - Desktop Shootout - 9th Anniversary of MHVLUG Apr 4 - An Intro to Chef
