Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What distros *don't* use systemd ? Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:17:58 +0100 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <2kqldb-3h6.ln1@squidward.local.dionic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ANB6LhLN4Ik77+Dbs3ZVDwIOUafPYAXYqVM1a2lXH3gNKtDlaR X-Orig-Path: squidward.local.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:iPtnoRyyBRvuXM7JhO+nuYrKpJo= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:11958 On 05/09/14 14:23, Joe Beanfish wrote: > On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:03:28 +0100, Tim Watts wrote: >> On 04/09/14 13:15, Aragorn wrote: >>>>> "the /usr move" [2], >>>> >>>> Oh god - I don't even know what that is... >>> >>> It is comprised of moving all runtime binaries off of the root >>> filesystem and into /usr, with /bin, /sbin and /lib{,64} only being >>> symbolic links to their respective equivalents under /usr. >> >> And since when did the init process dictate FS naming policy? >> >> I'm not even sure why they would want to do that or why anyone would >> think it a good idea. > > I'm only guessing at their rationale here but... > > It's common these days for /usr to be the same FS as / because of large > disks and no longer needing a tiny / for bootstrap. In that case it's > a bit pointless to have redundant copies of stuff in /bin and /usr/bin > etc.. > There wouldn't be redundant copies though - stuff that's in /bin stays there and isn't replicated to /usr/bin as both are in $PATH for any given process. I really don't get it ---