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On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 09:20:38PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 13:46:06 -0500 |
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> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> > we just got the following bug report for openrc today [1]. |
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> > |
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> > On a gentoo 64 bit system, /lib is a symbolic link to /lib64, and this |
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> > causes breakage in openrc. |
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> > |
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> > The simplest fix for this would be for us to add /libexec to |
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> > baselayout and start using it for platform-agnostic code. We |
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> > have /usr/libexec, so I don't know why we don't have /libexec. Should |
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> > we? |
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> We don't have it because we usually don't want to introduce additional |
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> directories in rootfs. Honestly, I'd rather see all stuff go to /usr |
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> than introducing /libexec. |
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openrc cannot be installed in /usr, because it is |
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used to boot the system. Also remember that openrc is not used on linux |
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systems only, so we can't blindly assume that everyone would be fine |
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with us moving it to /usr. |
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William |
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