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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: aballier@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:30:05
Message-Id: 20120102193026.0ed5bd26@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by Alexis Ballier
1 On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 14:54:39 -0300
2 Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 00:16:29 -0600
5 > Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> wrote:
6 >
7 > > On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:59:47 -0600
8 > > William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
9 > >
10 > > > Udev, kmod (which is a replacement for module-init-tools which
11 > > > will be needed by >=udev-176), systemd, and soon others, are
12 > > > advocating a major change to the locations where binaries and
13 > > > libraries are stored on linux systems.
14 > > >
15 > > > The goal is to deprecate /bin, /lib, /sbin and /usr/sbin. My
16 > > > understanding is that they want to move software that is installed
17 > > > in /bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin to /usr/bin. Also, they want to move
18 > > > everything from /lib to /usr/lib.
19 > >
20 > > I coulda swore April was another four months away...
21 >
22 > no, in April they will declare the zillions of #!/bin/sh scripts
23 > broken because they rely on a so old unix standard :=)
24
25 Yes, we should migrate to #!/usr/bin/env sh :P.
26
27
28 --
29 Best regards,
30 Michał Górny

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