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Olivier Crête posted on Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:17:50 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 12:46 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: |
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>> I don't think the /{bin,sbin,lib} and /usr/sbin directories should be |
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>> deleted. |
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>> However, what I would like to see is that the package maintainers would |
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>> be responsible for creating any compatibility symlinks their package |
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>> needs, not portage. I don't think it is a good idea to have portage or |
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>> any package manager controling the migration. |
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> The other option is to do mv /bin/* /sbin/* /usr/sbin/* /usr/bin; and |
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> then create symlinks from the other dirs to /usr/bin.. That can be done |
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> in big move, it's the way Fedora is going to do it. |
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That's what I had in mind, and in fact have already been thinking about |
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trying, here. |
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Which is why I don't really like the idea of packages placing symlinks, |
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since then it'd likely be the symlink copied last, overwriting the actual |
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binary with the symlink... pointing at itself due to the symlinked dirs! |
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Which is why I suggested a portage feature that would detect such |
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collisions and die before installing them, potentially overwriting the |
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binary with a symlink to itself! |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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