Getting rid of /usr for F12?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Sat Apr 18 01:26:18 UTC 2009


Benny Amorsen wrote:
> Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> writes:
> 
>> Let's eliminate this source of errors and clean up our file system
>> layout a bit. Let's drop /usr for F12!
> 
> Fedora is traditionally very conservative when it comes to anything that
> involves file paths. Witness the "/sbin in the default PATH" flamewar,
> which would probably have been solved best by turning /sbin into an
> empty directory except for a bunch of symlinks. Instead Fedora (finally)
> went with what others do: add /sbin to the default PATH.
IMO, this decision is one these @RH decisions, where RH has demonstrated 
their willingness to run down Fedora.







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