Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Fri, 17.04.09 06:48, Ralf Corsepius (rc040203(a)freenet.de) wrote:
> Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> Heya,
>>
>> there's one topic that keeps popping up in various discussions: can't
>> we get rid of /usr? The seperation of / and /usr doesn't make much
>> sense anymore.
> This is a very short-sighed view.
Oh, is it?
>> We could make /usr a symlink to / for an interims phase
>> and everything would be good for conservative folks who think the FHS
>> is the holy bible.
> Religiousity isn't the point - The point is: There are reasons for why
> the FHS rsp. the GNU standards are setup the way they are.
First of all FHS is not a "GNU standard".
Secondly, it is of course very convincing if you just nebulously say
'there are rasons' instead of mentioning any.
Well, sometimes the fact that something *is* standard is far more important
than what the standard is. And /usr has been around for a very long time,
and lots of software (an people, for that matter) know that it's there.
Much of the GNU configured software by default installs in /usr/local.
There has to be a very high bar for changing common practice.
Andrew.