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diff --git a/hurd/faq/slash_usr_symlink/discussion.mdwn b/hurd/faq/slash_usr_symlink/discussion.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..219e14e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/faq/slash_usr_symlink/discussion.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_documentation]] + + +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-01 + + <marcusb> I remember the time when we had a /usr symlink. Now fedora 17 + will move / to /usr and have /foo symlinks. :) + <marcusb> braunr: + http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge + <marcusb> braunr: fedora and others are merging /bin, /sbin and some other + into /usr + <marcusb> braunr: back in 1998 we tried for two years or so to have /usr -> + .. in Debian GNU/Hurd, but eventually we gave up on it, because it broke + some stuff + <gnu_srs> marcusb: Hi, which one is better (in your opinion): / or /usr? + <marcusb> gnu_srs: fedora says that using /usr allows better separation of + distribution files and machine-local files + <braunr> marcusb: won't it break remote /usr ? + <marcusb> so you can atomically mount the OS files to /usr + <marcusb> gnu_srs: but in the end, it's a wash + <marcusb> personally, I think every package should get its own directory + <braunr> marcusb: what PATH then ? + <marcusb> braunr: well, I guess you'd want to assemble a union filesystem + for a POSIX shell + <braunr> marcusb: i don't see what you mean :/ + <braunr> ah this comes from Lennart Poettering + <marcusb> braunr: check out for example how http://nixos.org/ does it + <manuel> braunr: something like, union /package1/bin /package2/bin + /package3/bin for /bin, /package1/lib /package2/lib /package3/lib for + /lib, etc. I guess + <braunr> manuel: would that scale well ? + <marcusb> the idea that there is only one correct binary for each program + with the name foo is noble, but a complete illusion that hides the + complexity of the actual configuration management task + <braunr> marcusb: right |