Thanks, I was just doing some reading on it also ... broken sym-links could take on a whole new dimension of fail with this scheme :) We'll know if it was a successful test if it eventually makes it into Red Hat Enterprise I suppose. At least it will somewhat declutter the '/' root directory.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [wlug] Fedora 17 "Beefy Miracle" released From: Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)waikato.ac.nz> Date: Wed, May 30, 2012 12:01 pm To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz>

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Any ideas where all the files from /bin /sbin /lib and /lib64 will be moved to? seems quite a dramatic change ... I always thought that seemed like quite logical layout. I can see many a broken shell script in Fedora's future.

The distinction between executables for the root user and other mere mortals has become blurred over time and apparently, one can no longer really boot up with an empty /usr. More information here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove

In the referenced article "What's new in Fedora 17" (http://h-online.com/-1585254), there is the following information on what's happening to the obsolete directories:

"In Fedora 17, all of the files which were previously located in these directories are now in similarly named sub-directories of /usr/. To ensure backwards compatibility, the deleted directories have been replaced with symbolic links that point to the new directories."

Shouldn't break any scripts therefore.

Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/           Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174 _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug