> 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.
That has always been the case. In fact people have tried to seperate /etc from / but it has proved too problematic. That's a different issue entirely. If the proposal was / (etc) /root /usr. I would be happy... if it worked. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________