[oi-dev] Desktop Illumos Still Matters

[Nick Zivkovic]

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 09/ 5/12 10:55 AM, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
>> Nick Zivkovic wrote:
>>> Basically, I'm asking if it is better to have one convention
>>> (everything in /usr/$consolidation) instead of two (some things in
>>> /usr/$consolidation and others in /opt/$consolidation)?
>>>
>>
>> There's never been any rule about consolidations being funneled into specific
>> directories. It may be that it makes sense in a few specific cases because of
>> functional groupings, but not universally.
>
> In fact, we've been going the other way for years, moving away from
> /usr/$subsystem directories that impose meaningless boundaries in the way of
> users.
>
> In the last OpenSolaris builds released (snv_130 & later), OpenIndiana, and
> Solaris 11 you should find that /usr/X11 is simply a bunch of backwards
> compatibility symlinks.   Most of the X11 libraries were simply reached via
> /usr/lib since Solaris 2.6, and the rest of the X11 files moved to /usr/bin,
> /usr/share, /usr/lib, etc. in those Nevada builds.

Thanks for clearing this up, Alan.

Besides, these boundaries are better enforced through NG zones than
through the filesystem heirarchy.



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