On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 16:32 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
Nah.. why take the simple way. In fact.. why have /bin and
/usr/bin..
no one who counts really uses them as seperate things? We should just
have everything in one or the other. I mean put everything in /bin
that is executable. Create a /share and we don't really need /usr
anymore either.
I'll be the first to bite, then:
I really don't care/like/give-a-crap about /sbin or /bin - it's a vague
and silly distinction.
as a user I want commands to be in my path. I don't give a flying fig
where they live.
As far as /usr is concerned that's a giant 'shrug'. We need a place to
shove a bunch of stuff /usr is just as good as anything else.
I grok the nfs-mount /usr routine for the distinction b/t things in /
and things /usr. That's fine. But nothing about the [/usr]/sbin and
[/usr]/bin distinction makes any sense anymore. Permissions and acls go
to the file layer. We can work just fine w/o them.
the need for it is kaput.
-sv