On 12/16/2011 01:24 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: > Hi Riku, > > I think an important point to consider is that /usr would not > disappear. It could be replaced by a symlink for new installs. > This would permit older installs to continue to use /usr, but > the files would end up on / for new installs. So no changes > to --prefix would be needed, and the Debian packages themselves > could still provide files in /usr. > Feel free to experiment such non-sense on your own computers, but please do not impose this to everyone.
Oh, and when I'm at it, how do you implement /usr as read only, (over nfs for example)? This is a quite common setup in large organization / universities. > Doing this would be a simple change to debian-installer. And a hell for upgrades on *a lot* of existing systems. > It might > require a few other minor tweaks Yeah, right... A few other minor tweaks... Good luck with them! Seriously, how much wrong could it go? Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- 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/4eea4c1b.2060...@goirand.fr
