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A homogeneous environment that doesn't have formal package management is the only use case I can envision. It was a good idea back in the SunOS days (and it's
by logic 16y ago
A homogeneous environment that doesn't have formal package management is the only use case I can envision.
It was a good idea back in the SunOS days (and it's probably still workable to a limited extent for the BSDs, and perhaps folks like Gentoo) when local storage wasn't as plentiful as it is today, but I think we've safely moved on at this point.
- koenigdavidmj 16y agoOn modern Solaris systems, isn't /bin a symlink to /usr/bin anyway? Kind of shoots down the old reasoning that /bin has the absolute minimum to get a broken system fixed, and /usr/bin has everything else.
- JoshTriplett 16y agoI understand that use case, I just don't see why it makes sense to share /usr rather than sharing /.