Re: The naming wars continue...

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 03:17:16PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> >
> >Why there is any distinction between, say, gcc and X?
> >KDE and Midnight Commander? etc... Why some of them go
> >to /opt while others are spread across dozen of dirs?
> >This seems to be inconsistent to me.
> 
> At one time Sun had the convention that things in /usr could be mounted 
> ro on multiple machines. That worked, it predates Linux so Linux was the 
> o/s which chose to go another way, and it covered the base things in a 
> system.
> 
> That actually seems like a good way to split a networked environment, 
> with /bin and /sbin having just enough to get the system up and mount 
> /usr. I can't speak to why that is being done differently now.
> 
> I guess someone was nervous about mounting a local /usr/local on a 
> (possibly) network mounted /usr and theu /opt, but that's a guess on my 
> part as well.

Read-only /usr is required according to the FHS, and at least on Debian 
a read-only /usr works without problems.

A bigger problem might be to properly support it in the package manager.

cu
Adrian

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