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

[Duncan]

Ian Stakenvicius posted on Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:03:32 -0500 as excerpted:

> On 03/01/12 11:51 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
>
>> For example, consider what happens when bash or all of coreutils
>> migrate to /usr.
>
> ..well, when /bin/sh no longer exists then there -will- be issues,
> system-wide, on a massive scale.  Unless shells or environments can
> dynamically map that hash-bang to an appropriate interpreter (ie,
> themselves) automatically.
>
> *shudder*..  I don't even want to think about the migration i'd have to
> do to handle that change.

FWIW, I was reading a review of [was it GOBO Linux?, some distro that's 
famous for reorganizing things much like MS does, a program files dir, 
etc], and it was said to still contained a /bin with only a couple 
symlinks, /bin/bash and /bin/sh, for this very reason.

Of course fedora uses an initr* so real-root and /usr will be mounted at 
the same time, and they're doing a /bin -> /usr/bin symlink at least for 
now, so they don't need to worry about that in the short term either.  
Longer term, possibly they'll try to get rid of it, but I expect at least 
some form of /bin/sh and/or /bin/bash symlink to remain around for quite 
some time.

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