Getting rid of /usr for F12?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Fri Apr 17 23:38:34 UTC 2009


Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> said:
> However, no daemon should ever touch files in /etc automatically. That
> NM does that is pretty bad style. Instead resolv.conf should be
> replaced by a symlink to /var and manipulated there.

/etc is by standard for system configuration files.  It is unreasonable
to expect everything that needs to update system configuration to have
to know to remount read-write / (or /etc or whatever).  Making a bunch
of symlinks just to repoint configuration files out of the configuration
directory would be stupid.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.




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