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Ah, yes, well...

Ah, yes, well...

Posted Jan 27, 2012 20:30 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Ah, yes, well... by jd
Parent article: The case for the /usr merge

>If any directory should go, I'd eliminate /usr as a physical tree and make it a virtual one. Each user and each process would then see /usr/* according to what they have rights to see.

That's actually what Nixos ( http://nixos.org/ ) is doing.


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Ah, yes, well...

Posted Jan 28, 2012 3:17 UTC (Sat) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

As is GoboLinux:

http://www.gobolinux.org/

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