[lsb-discuss] Call for Topics - 2012-02-15 conference call

[Robert Schweikert]

Jeff,


On 02/14/2012 07:39 AM, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> This is a call for topics to discuss on the conference call this Wednesday.
>
> Current topics:
>
>   - Infrastructure update and bug review.
>
>   - Modularization proposals.
>
> Please follow up to the list.  I'll post the final list later today.

I'd like to have a short, maybe 10 minute discussion and get a sense 
about how people view the /usr merge w.r.t. impacting FHS and LSB.

FHS has:

 From FHS 2.3[1]:

"/bin contains commands that may be used by both the system
administrator and by users, but which are required when no other
filesystems are mounted (e.g. in single user mode). It may also contain
commands which are used indirectly by scripts."

and

"The following commands, or symbolic links to commands, are required in 
/bin."

Thus from my perspective there is nothing in FHS that prevents the move 
of binaries from /bin, /sbin to /usr as long as a link exists back to 
the new location.

However, there may be other sections of FHS and or LSB that would be 
violated. If we agree that the merge/move is OK from FHS & LSB point of 
view it would be great to add something to 
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge 
to eliminate the argument once and for all.

Thanks,
Robert

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