On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 06:20:42PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge > > Now that we have union mounts in Linux, should we instead do what Ken > Thompson and Dennis Ritchie should have done; install things in / > instead of /usr and use union mounts when there is one small disk > containing some files and a larger disk containing other files?
+1. /usr is a historical artefact, why would we mandate it forever? Let's follow the Hurd way of /bin /sbin rather than /usr/bin /usr/sbin. A symlink /usr -> / is easier to implement (and benefits from most of the work already done for UsrMerge). -- A tit a day keeps the vet away.
