[colug-432] Stoopid Question

[Steve VanSlyck]

I figured. I've never liked Linux's scheme of spreading out all the system 
directories. But inasmuch as the decision was made long ago I guess I'm 
left with it.

----- Original Message -----
From: Angelo McComis <angelo at mccomis.com>
To: Central OH Linux User Group - 432xx <colug-432 at colug.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:07:38 -0500
Subject: Re: [colug-432] Stoopid Question

> To me, this would be like having one of those binary clocks as an alarm
> clock-- First thing you have to do when you wake up in the morning is work
> out a math problem. Who wants to do that?
> 
> The same would go for any "work" you'd want to do in such a configuration.
> You'd always be trying to work out the problem of where
> /usr/bin/{something}, /sbin/{blah}, /etc/{stuff} actually lives.  Or, 
you'd
> be forever chasing down symlinks that you need to create, so that an app
> that insists on putting his PID file into /var/run actually could write 
his
> PID file there, and so on and so forth.
> 
> I would vote "unwise" for this one, unfortunately.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Steve VanSlyck 
<s.vanslyck at spamcop.net>wrote:
> 
> > How easy/difficult/impossible and/or unwise would it be to install Linux
> > such that all of the OS files" are consinged to their own subdirectory,
> > such as /Linux/var and so on, instead of the normal layout of sitting on
> > root?
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