"dbus in single-user mode?" alias "/usr over bluetooth?"

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Wed Feb 13 17:10:10 UTC 2008


On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:43:21AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > /usr over network is an important feature of Fedora, which has to be
> > kept in mind.  So we have to have (at least some) network support in
> > /bin and /sbin.
> 
> Can you explain how the separate /usr is not just an anachronism that 
> is holding us back ?

Its defined in the LSB, its a long tradition and its very useful. Please
don't confuse "I don't use it" with "obsolete" or you'll end up with
a distro that's like some of the desktop apps and only usable by exact
clones of their authors.




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