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From: Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:07:23
Message-Id: 4F0440B3.4090500@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by "Michał Górny"
1 Michał Górny schrieb:
2 > On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:47:38 +0100
3 > Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> 2. switching from udev to mdev (avoids required /usr of udev)
6 >> 3. some wrapper script to mount /usr before udev starts
7 >
8 > These two should be really discouraged as a cheap, temporary solution.
9 > We should not support hate-admining. I personally think that busybox is
10 > ready to go into /usr even earlier than udev.
11
12 Please give us a bit more than just your opinion.
13
14 Why do you see mdev as a temporary solution?
15
16 And this part was not about the movement to /usr at all, so why do you
17 suggest another movement here? And while you answer that, please also
18 tell us, why you want to migrate packages to a different install
19 location without a need.
20
21 >
22 >> For the idea of complete migration to /usr, i see no reason to go this
23 >> route in advance. Just keep with our default install locations and
24 >> follow upstream, if and where needed.
25 >
26 > What about upstreams who do not care? In other words, all those
27 > packages which we hack to install into rootfs?
28
29 They install and work fine, so just keep it this way. I did not see any
30 argument to move packages around, that work well and have no issue with
31 their current install location.
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36 Thomas Sachau
37 Gentoo Linux Developer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>