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[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:38:13AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:

> /opt is a location filled with vendor detritus on a lot of systems -
> sometimes managed by rpms, sometimes not. It's not uncommon to have /opt
> automounted via nfs. Additionally, on some workstastion systems /opt is
> a separate drive managed by the 'local admin' of the machine and filled
> with whatever 3rd party software they need for their instance.

/opt being network shared seems like a reasonable thing to support.

> /usr is frequently given different mount options (like noatime, for
> example) or mounted readonly to prevent unnecessary writes to the
> system.

That doesn't require it to be a separate partition.

> Additionally, since our software in fedora has a trickle down impact on
> users in rhel-land I think you'll find that this will have to be done,
> eventually for them.

"We have to support it because users want it" is a poor argument. We 
have to understand why people want it to be a separate partition and 
then decide whether the simplest way (in terms of overall engineering 
effort) to support those desires is by supporting it as a separate 
partition. So far nobody's come up with a terribly plausible reason for 
why /usr should be separate.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org