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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: grobian@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:47:17
Message-Id: 20120104174742.11d7002d@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by Fabian Groffen
1 On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:33:15 +0100
2 Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 04-01-2012 16:37:34 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > > And this part was not about the movement to /usr at all, so why
6 > > > do you suggest another movement here? And while you answer that,
7 > > > please also tell us, why you want to migrate packages to a
8 > > > different install location without a need.
9 > >
10 > > Because we need to finally be able to fix mistakes made in the past
11 > > by other people.
12 >
13 > What mistakes?
14
15 The mistake of introducing a pointless separation based on a rule
16 of thumb which becomes more and more blurry over time, and hacking
17 packages just to make it work.
18
19 --
20 Best regards,
21 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>