/usr on USB

[John]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 04:20:59PM +0800, John wrote:
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>>The short story is it doesn't work.
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>>The long story is hard to determine, and I don't know what caused what.
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>>Hotplug failed because it wants perl.
>>hotplug also wants wc
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>hotplug runs after /usr is mounted, so that's one reason this won't work out
>of the box.
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then hotplug and everything it needs should not be in /usr.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE2
You cann;ot "boot, restore, recover, and/or repair the system" without /usr.