Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split

Walter Dnes waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org
Thu Feb 2 21:28:52 UTC 2012


On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 12:06:05PM -0500, William Muriithi wrote
> Walter
> > ?The sad part is that Redhat (the people behind Fedora) also employ the
> > lead developers for udev, and they're trying to make udev unuseable
> > without /usr being present.
> 
> I really disagree this has anything to do with RedHat.  Redhat happen
> to just employ the majority of the kernel developer which is something
> to be glad about, not something to whine about. Really, if most of the
> other big vendors like google could invest on the kernel like Redhat,
> Linux would be even better
> 
> The consequence of having most of the kernel dev as RedHat employees
> is that people start feeling like Redhat control how the kernel
> development evolve.  This can not be correct, most of the kernel
> developers are top rate C programmers and can not be controlled like a
> college school kids. So, despite Redhat being their employer, how udev
> development evolve has more to do with the kernel developers taste
> than Redhat influence.  Which mean, it would not matter if they were
> employed by Google or IBM for that matter.

  In that case, why is the Fedora Project bragging about the specific
benefits to Fedora?  See...
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove#Benefit_to_Fedora

  The main reason for for the bad feelings towards Redhat/Fedora is that
overhead for stuff that benefits Redhat/Fedora could be forced on other
distros.  If Fedora wants to use systemd, and it doesn't affect Gentoo,
fine, I have no problems with that.  But when they make changes to basic
system services like udevd that would force *ALL* distros to re-organize
disk drives, that's when the complaints from everybody else starts.  If
Fedora had gone with their own service/tool/add-on that was launched by
udevd early on and did the Fedora thing, none of this animosity would've
happened.

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