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How come /usr/etc/ didn't become popular?

• klodolph 6y ago
  This is for config files inside a repo.
• dahfizz 6y ago
  What's the advantage over plain old /etc ? I am always annoyed by /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/share/bin, and others. Why can't we consolidate?
  • kardos 6y ago
    We did? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove
    • sergeykish 6y ago
      I always wondered why /usr was not abandoned in favor of root > Why don’t you move all /usr contents to / and forget about /usr? > Because this introduces a lot of new toplevel directories, which all have to be mount points then to be shared across other hosts. > Ok, but what about a root filesystem on the network and mounting local filesystems only? > Then you would share the toplevel directory hierarchy among all hosts. Hosts would need to mount /etc and /var for host-only versions. So it is about network boot. Sad. There is nothing "usr" about /usr, it is system installed packages - /sys or /System. And /usr is for "/usr/dmr" which is /home. At least no more /usr/local.
  • badrabbit 6y ago
    I think /etc/ is for system wide config, but I take back my original comment. XDG apparently has a standard for this nobody follows.