On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:54:08 +0000 Clive Cooper wrote:
IMHO it is not the worst thing to separate /bin and /usr/bin ;-) https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commit/a047be85247755...
Ah good a public thread, my message to the dev list got bounced. As a new user to Arch. I was shocked to find binaries like firefox in library directories? Should /bin and /sbin contain all the statically built execs to increase the reliability of single user mode. I often have other problems when trying to partition on Linux, Arch is one of the only distros to suggest partitioning by default, nice one. I'm not a fan of /opt and other new partitions coming along as it causes headaches for partitioning like how much space but I see how it may (unlikely but possible) prevent third party programs damaging the system. I see udev creating directories in /media as a problem for the goal of read only systems, unless it is on it's own partition. Personally I use udev rules to mount to /mnt/usb0, /mnt/usb1 etc. making it consistent and logical to human users and sudoers, not to mention the problem of stupidly long named directories on occasion making escaping required or copying on the commandline. Anyway here's some food for thought you might find interesting about FHS compared to the OpenBSD way of doing things. The thread has some other useful thoughts too. "http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=130503366832069&w=2" -- Kc