On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 05:56:56PM +0200, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > There is no reason to support this ancient concept of a separate > /usr-partition. The age of tape-drives is over, there is no need for > it. And I must admit, it really makes things complicated in a lot of > respects.
NFS mounts maybe, who want to have a /bin and /sbin in case their NFS mount freezes still in the age of NFSv4? Not a minority this distro should support though, right? Your /usr that big? Possible but… > I hear arguments that you put user-specific applications into /usr/bin > and general applications into /bin, Anything even remotely important other than the above? > however, what kind of joke is this distinction anyway? What's the argument you're making? That it's ridiculous? *HOW*, not just it's ridiculous again and again on the mailing list. > In my opinion, we should also get rid of /sbin. We are entering the > age where we don't have "root" and "normal" users. Educational institutions and libraries, not that I think many of those oft backwards institutions will choose this distro.
