On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> wrote: > No one has proposed moving everything to /usr. At the minimum, we would > still have /etc and /var in /, as well as various mountpoints. If we do > move those to /usr, then we effectively renamed / to /usr, which is > pointless. The absurdity of mounting /usr over NFS instead of / is > precisely why people are saying to just mount / (with /usr as being part > of it).
We're drifting here, but the concept is that machine-local stuff like configuration stays out of /usr, and generic distro stuff stays in /usr. A webserver for site1 vs site2 would be identical in /usr, but different elsewhere. However, that whole approach makes less sense for a distro that prides itself on you being able to make every installation unique. That said, if you do want to make a whole bunch of Gentoo installs the same then sticking everything important in /usr and network mounting it is a good way to accomplish it. Rich
