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  • From: Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org>
  • To: sm-commit AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Eric Sandall (3af8bc174a00c8fdb3bf52bbb46185a710129c8f)
  • Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:24:07 +0200

Am Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:05:09 -0700
schrieb Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>:

> I have never used the tools installed by this spell, so they could
> safely go into /usr/sbin. I'll make the change later today if no one
> objects.

Well, you don't need them for the default setup of your box connecting
to an access point, which would be a reasonable config if you really
mount /usr over wlan. I use wlanconfig for specifically configuring
ad-hoc mode or ap mode... one can do quite fancy stuff there with
multiple virtual interfaces.

Perhaps too fancy for /sbin. But then, only people that install madwifi
have the files and perhaps they'd like to have them there. But that
doesn't make sense when iwconfig is in /usr/sbin. So, /usr/sbin should
be fine for now...

I'll more care for these bastard man pages in /usr/man from a number of
spells.

But Jeremy:
>> The majority of people don't likely have networked
>> /usr partitions, no need to crowd everyone's /.

Why does that /usr separation exist at all, then?
A friend of mine (long-time CS student, even;-) asked me that question
some time ago.
I tried to explain it with the system installation being distributed
over the network, many machines sharing a common /usr .
That he understood.

Now I must admit, if I would setup such a distributed install (and I
think I will with our cluster), I would go with whole network boot
anyway, with an initramfs caring to getting even the root mounted over
NFS.
I would not just share /usr.
Another argument could be that one wants to distribute the dir tree
over partitions / disks.
Well, I see reason to separate /var, /tmp and /etc (specific to each
host or read-write)... but not /bin and /usr/bin (essentially
read-only, common). We enter deep personal taste territory there, I
guess, and /usr will stay just for the legacy if not for something
real...

Hm, I could make /usr a symlink to / and have a nice, flat directory
structure;-)


Thomas.

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