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[Peter Jones]

On 10/19/2010 02:25 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com> said:
>> On 10/19/2010 11:28 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
>>> And how many of those bugs are exclusively a /usr-is-separate problem
>>> vs. how many of them are didn't-anticipate-alternate-partitioning
>>> problems?
>>
>> If I understand your distinction correctly, then the overwhelming majority
>> of them are the former.
> 
> The one that led to this discussion (626007) doesn't seem to be.

Indeed.

> The "/usr/sbin/foo is needed before FSes are mounted" is a fairly
> trivial problem to solve in the majority of cases; I don't see that as a
> big deal.
> 
> If separate /usr isn't considered a valid configuration, why do we have
> separate /bin, /sbin, /lib{,64}?

Because we haven't decided to merge those together. That's really the only
reason - there's no over-arching technical reason they need to be separate.
It's entirely a historical consideration.

-- 
        Peter

What we need is either less corruption, or more chances to participate in it.

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