Marco d'Itri dijo [Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 04:32:46PM +0200]: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove > > I am still not 100% persuaded that this would be easy to do, but at > least I think that it has more merit than the old "move all to /"... > > How much complex would it be to implement this in Debian? > Would "mv /bin/* /usr/bin/" and making it a symlink just work, without > the need to create temporary symlinks in every package as red hat plans > to do? > This reminds me a bit of the /usr/doc/ => /usr/share/doc/ transition.
I did not _thoroughly_ read the linked Wiki page, but did rad on the follow-ups to your mail, and looked at bits of the Wiki page so at least I know I'm not just ranting due to impulse. IMO this proposal comes largely because, given that Fedora has a more specific focus (desktop systems and serving as an experimental for RedHat, which in turn is targetted mostly at servers), there is not _that_ much of a point in keeping a minimal system... So they have allowed themselves a degree of sloppiness: /usr on its own filesystem is useful in custom setups. But instead of the Unix way to (almost randomly) split-off tools from /usr and put them in /, and require more and more tools to move to / I do not believe that description fits the bill for Debian. And this is largely because a group of Debian Developers has historically kept in mind the embedded systems scenario – And probably because we are quite more anal-retentive regarding our policy. A Debian system without /usr is useful. Give me the description for a binary (or library FWIW), and I'm sure many people will give you (with high correlation as well) whether it should go in / or in /usr. So, no, I don't see we are having any sort of namespace pollution. Greetings, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
