Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

[Ian Stakenvicius]

On 01/01/12 03:53 AM, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 07:59:47PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
>> The goal is to deprecate /bin, /lib, /sbin and /usr/sbin. My
>> understanding is that they want to move software that is installed in
>> /bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin to /usr/bin. Also, they want to move
>> everything from /lib to /usr/lib.
>
> I don't like this one bit. Things used to be simple with the "split" between
> /bin and /usr/bin (and its related directories), this isn't going to make it
> more simple.

I concurr.  I will admit that I've been rather out of touch with what 
other distros are doing (and have been for ~3-4 years), but combining 
everything into /usr/bin just seems plain backwards and I am rather 
shocked that all the distros are moving that way.

Has the LFH been updated??  Googling seems to say no, as the last mod 
seems to have been in 2004...  I know that, technically, these are 
'userspace' programs in that they aren't kernel-space, but they're still 
'system' programs so to me it still makes sense for them to be on the 
'system' side of the filesystem hierarchy, doesn't it?


>
>> 3) Try to maintain  things the way they are as long as possible.
>
> I'm all for this one.

I second this too.  IMO, unless the FSSTND matches the new proposal from 
udev/systemd/etc upstreams, then I think we should stick with what the 
LFH describes.  It may be possible, too, on this basis, to file bugs 
against the upstreams to enforce compatible behaviour??

Of course, 'as long as possible' may depend a bit on what the timelines 
are..  I would hope that we can support existing behaviour for at least 
the next 6+ months?  (at least then, if the Mayan calendar's right, the 
end of the world will keep us from having to implement the change)..