The strangeness called `sbin'

[Ed Schouten]

Hi Doug,

* Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org>, 20111113 23:57:
> If we're going to talk about making a change that's actually worth
> making, let's just move everything into / and get rid of /usr
> altogether. It served its purpose back when it came into being, but with
> modern disk sizes and the (unfortunate) prevalence of the "one big /"
> layout model, it's time in the sun is long past.

Now that I think of it, it may be possible to sort of combine this with
my approach in a way that it doesn't break POLA for existing users. What
if we leave everything in the tree alone, but only modify the code, so
that any new installations on empty directory structures use the
following symlinks:

- /sbin -> /bin
- /usr/bin -> /bin
- /usr/games -> /bin
- /usr/lib -> /lib
- /usr/sbin -> /bin

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?

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/
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