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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:11:05
Message-Id: 20120102170300.GA1636@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
1 On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 01:24:00PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
2 > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 8:59 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
3 > > Udev, kmod (which is a replacement for module-init-tools which will be needed
4 > > by >=udev-176), systemd, and soon others, are advocating a major change
5 > > to the locations where binaries and libraries are stored on linux
6 > > systems.
7 >
8 > Could you please point me to the discussions where udev, kmod and soon
9 > others are advocating /usr/bin and /bin unification?
10
11 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
12 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove
13
14 Also udev git now installs by default in /usr/bin and kmod installs
15 by default in /usr/bin.
16
17 Udev has now also been changed so that it doesn't care if rules fail to
18 run if/usr is not mounted. It doesn't keep track of this type of failure
19 and doesn't give us a way to re-run these rules.
20
21 That is just the beginning; I'm sure more packages will be changed to
22 follow this setup.
23
24 William