On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Gaetan Bisson <bisson@archlinux.org> wrote:
[2011-11-04 13:52:34 +0100] Tom Gundersen:
Most, but not all. Also, FHS specifically allows symlinks to the real binaries, so referring to the FHS is not really an argument either way.
I'm not sure I can follow your train of thoughts...
Why complicate the layout by adding symlinks?
Can we even boot without /usr anyhow?
Hmmm... I guess I was not clear. My suggestion was simply for people to have a look at their packages to see if they put any binaries outside /usr that have no reason to be there. We can not currently boot without /usr, so binaries needed to mount /usr need to stay outside for the time being. Maybe being in the FHS also is a good reason to stay outside. It was not my intention to dictate what constitutes a good reason, just to raise awareness as there are some things that clearly should go away (what exactly they are I'll leave up to the individual maintainers). Above all though, I think we should be hesitant to add new stuff to /bin or /sbin. Cheers, Tom