If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved out of /usr, not moved in.
well no the point is to have a single top-level directory for a single
On Thursday 26 Jul 2012 05:13:39 Damjan wrote: purpose.
so distribution provided files will go to /usr, local-system configuration in /etc, /run is for runtime state, /var is the local-system state (the non-ephemeral state).
Let me paste this here: » The merged directory /usr, containing almost the entire vendor-
supplied
operating system resources, offers us a number of new features regarding OS snapshotting and options for enterprise environments for network sharing or running multiple guests on one host. Most of this is much harder to accomplish, or even impossible, with the current arbitrary split of tools across multiple directories.
With all vendor-supplied OS resources in a single directory /usr they may be shared atomically, snapshots of them become atomic, and the file system may be made read-only as a single unit. «
Well, /opt would have to go soon, too
Why will /opt have to go? I always though /opt was for installing custom software which you do not want to mix with other software (for example I have MATLAB and similar stuff installed there with each of them in its separate folder) and I guess, that is the one and only use of /opt and there is no other directory which does something similar, except for if you are talking about /local but then, /local has the purpose of being /local, it can be vendor- supplied local program which are specific to the machine and it will have /bin /etc /lib and stuff? -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html