On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 12:59 +0000, Laszlo Papp wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Richard Purdie > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 12:32 +0000, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> > By having a default of /home/root/ we can catch software that has issues > > with relocation of that. > > I am not sure what you mean. Could you please elaborate? As you mention, "/root" is more standard. It therefore becomes hard to spot software that assumes this rather than using the directory we configure it to if the default is also /root. By having a slightly more unusual default choice, we quickly find the software that doesn't adapt to our variable. > > Having the writeable user data in one directory like this is useful > for several classes of embedded style devices. > > Could you please provide any examples? One that springs to mind is the Sharp Zaurus series of PDAs have separate /home partitions in flash. You can reflash a new rootfs without overwriting the user config data. > > So to be honest I don't see a pressing reason to change this. > > I do, because the earlier it is done, the fewer users that may have > incompatible changes. As the time goes ahead, more and more users will > stick to it as "default". I believe this means those who do not care > about proper Unix separation. Its been like this for years and seems to work perfectly fine for people. You can configure it just fine. As I said previously, I see no pressing reason to change it. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
