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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:01:45
Message-Id: 20120103170040.GM780@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by William Hubbs
1 On 03-01-2012 10:51:00 -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > > If a separate /usr is the only holdback, would it not be possible to
3 > > simply add static devnodes to the pre-udev /dev , and make a pre-init
4 > > wrapper script that mounts /usr ?
5 >
6 > I've thought about this, but a wrapper script assumes that the things it
7 > needs are still available in /, so any wrapper script we make will break
8 > as soon as something it needs migrates to /usr. For example, consider
9 > what happens when bash or all of coreutils migrate to /usr.
10
11 Do you mean us, or upstream?
12 I don't think bash or coreutils do that. We explicitly configure them
13 with --prefix=/ or move some utils back and forth.
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16 --
17 Fabian Groffen
18 Gentoo on a different level

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