Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:58:07 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The strangeness called `sbin' Message-ID: <F3EE0E8A-766C-426E-A1C5-479F60D95EB3@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20111114094223.GE80782@e-new.0x20.net> References: <20111110123919.GF2164@hoeg.nl> <4EBC4B6E.4060607@FreeBSD.org> <20111111112821.GP2164@hoeg.nl> <4EBDC06F.6020907@FreeBSD.org> <20111112103918.GV2164@hoeg.nl> <4EBF0003.3060401@FreeBSD.org> <20111113091940.GX2164@hoeg.nl> <4EC04B65.4030801@FreeBSD.org> <20111114092922.GA2164@hoeg.nl> <20111114093322.GB2164@hoeg.nl> <20111114094223.GE80782@e-new.0x20.net>
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On Nov 14, 2011, at 2:42 AM, Lars Engels wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:33:22AM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: >> * Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, 20111114 10:29: >>> But now the question remains how we should change the default >>> partitioning. I think default installations place home directories in >>> /usr/home, with a symlink from /home. Should they now be placed in >>> /usr/local/home? >> >> Oh wait. It seems the new FreeBSD installer by default only writes a / >> and a swap. Then this comment can be ignored. > > It does, but that was not a democratic decision, AFAIK... At the time, it was also *EXPLICITLY* stated that this wasn't a grab to moving things out of /usr, or changing that. There's a fair amount of infrastructure that depends on the separation and while it wouldn't be hard to separate it out, there's likely a non-zero amount of work to getting it all right. That's a *MUCH* bigger deal than collapsing /*bin into /bin or /usr/*bin into /usr/bin. Ed: Have you tested nanobsd, tinybsd and picobsd with even the modest changes you posted earlier? Warner
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