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The case for the /usr merge

The case for the /usr merge

Posted Feb 2, 2012 17:47 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)
In reply to: The case for the /usr merge by rgmoore
Parent article: The case for the /usr merge

Environments that want to share /usr probably use tools like Chef or Puppet to control the content of /etc anyhow. At least, we do. ;-)

That said, there are really many files in /etc that are there for historical reasons and could go to /usr/share, IMHO.


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