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

[Michał Górny]

On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:08:09 -0500
"G.Wolfe Woodbury" <redwolfe@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 01/03/2012 10:53 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> > 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?
> The problem is that one group of developers is ignoring years of
> history and purpose in the separation of /bin and /usr/bin and the
> ability of having a separate /usr.  This is in the udev development
> team and they /deliberately/ placed or used some programs in /usr/bin
> instead /bin and requiring that /usr bee in the root partition.

Please, explain to me, how did they do it? As far as I am aware,
autotools installs files where it is told to.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny