On 20/03/16 08:24, Stephanie Daugherty wrote:
> I would argue vdev belongs in / rather than /usr because it is
> likely to be necessary to mount filesystems and such.

I absolutely agree it should go in /
>
> The split is somewhat arbitrary these days but historically things
> needed during the boot process and to repair the system have gone in
> / while less essential bits have gone into /usr

I don't think the split is arbitrary, although some have worked hard to
break that structure and smear the history and wisdom of that design.

> People do still partition that way sometimes so it's a good idea not
> to break the system for them :)

Indeed. Thor

>
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016, 14:14 Rainer Weikusat
> <rainerweikusat@???
> <mailto:rainerweikusat@virginmedia.com>> wrote:
>
> aitor_czr <aitor_czr@??? <mailto:aitor_czr@gnuinos.org>>
> writes:
>> By default, PSTAT (a dependency of VDEV) is installed in
>> "/usr/local", just as VDEV.
>>
>> As Daniel Raurich explained in another thread:
>>
>> [...] the "/usr/local" directory is for non-packaged local stuff
>> [...]
>>
>> So, should i change this configuration for those packages, or
>> should i skip debhelper's "dh_usrlocal" script adding:
>>
>> binary: dh binary --before dh_usrlocal dh binary --after
>> dh_usrlocal
>>
>> to debian/rules?
>
> To which degree this actually makes a difference would be a good
> question but the convention-so-far has been that distribution
> provided stuff goes into / or /usr and that /usr/local can be used
> as seen fit by whoever controls/ administrates a particular
> installation. If the packaged vdev is supposed to become an integral
> part of the OS/ distribution, it should honour the existing
> convention unless there's a good reason for not doing this.
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