From 10a5ed091374ee5d6421e6c55afd86b13c0f52a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pino Toscano Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:37:56 +0100 Subject: Reorganize the Hurd FAQ in a single place move all the hurd faq pages to the top-level faq directory; the faq.mdwn index now uses two simples map of all the subpages (one for the debian items, and the other for the non-debian items) TODO: now some of the items would need better titles --- hurd/faq/slash_usr_symlink/discussion.mdwn | 45 ------------------------------ 1 file changed, 45 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 hurd/faq/slash_usr_symlink/discussion.mdwn (limited to 'hurd/faq/slash_usr_symlink') diff --git a/hurd/faq/slash_usr_symlink/discussion.mdwn b/hurd/faq/slash_usr_symlink/discussion.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 219e14e4..00000000 --- a/hurd/faq/slash_usr_symlink/discussion.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ -[[!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 - - I remember the time when we had a /usr symlink. Now fedora 17 - will move / to /usr and have /foo symlinks. :) - braunr: - http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge - braunr: fedora and others are merging /bin, /sbin and some other - into /usr - 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 - marcusb: Hi, which one is better (in your opinion): / or /usr? - gnu_srs: fedora says that using /usr allows better separation of - distribution files and machine-local files - marcusb: won't it break remote /usr ? - so you can atomically mount the OS files to /usr - gnu_srs: but in the end, it's a wash - personally, I think every package should get its own directory - marcusb: what PATH then ? - braunr: well, I guess you'd want to assemble a union filesystem - for a POSIX shell - marcusb: i don't see what you mean :/ - ah this comes from Lennart Poettering - braunr: check out for example how http://nixos.org/ does it - braunr: something like, union /package1/bin /package2/bin - /package3/bin for /bin, /package1/lib /package2/lib /package3/lib for - /lib, etc. I guess - manuel: would that scale well ? - 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 - marcusb: right -- cgit v1.2.3