On 2011-10-11, Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it> wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove > > I am still not 100% persuaded that this would be easy to do, but at > least I think that it has more merit than the old "move all to /"... > > How much complex would it be to implement this in Debian? > Would "mv /bin/* /usr/bin/" and making it a symlink just work, without > the need to create temporary symlinks in every package as red hat plans > to do?
That would be fine if /usr is always on the root partition. However many people put /usr on a separate partition, and then this could be a disaster. /bin contains lots of stuff that needs to be there at boot ( just like /lib or /etc) and having a link to a non-existant partition would break lots. > This reminds me a bit of the /usr/doc/ => /usr/share/doc/ transition. Hardly. It does not matter where doc is as far as booting or running is concerned. It is purely a housekeeping issue. It does matter where say the program mount is, since if it is not available at boot, it is going to be pretty hard to use your system. > > -- > ciao, > Marco > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnj98pr9.9sb.un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca
