Re: Solving the syslogd problem

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:33:22AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 09:21:23PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> > To fix this, I suggest that we split syslogd into syslogd and syslogd-network.
> 
> We could also do a much simpler and more radical decision and stop
> splitting / and /usr. Of all the partitioning choices available, it
> truely seems to be a pointless legacy from extremely constrained
> hardware with a significant cost to maintain.

This is elegant and I would like to see it.  Just remove /usr entirely and
collapse its contents into / - no /usr/bin, no /usr/lib, etc.

Thor