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On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 01:18:01PM -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote: |
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> Personally I think that merging things into /usr is a major policy decision |
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> that is likely to contravene upstream installation locations. I wouldn't |
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> do it lightly, if at all. |
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Actually, there are upstreams that already do this, and we are the ones |
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that move things around. |
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Specifically, one example is coreutils. The ebuild installs everything |
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in /usr/bin, then we move all of the binaries around. |
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Also, any time we run gen_usr_ldscript in an ebuild this is going |
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against upstream installation locations. |
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William |
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