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Ian Stakenvicius posted on Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:18:06 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> ... if Gentoo's installed on a system (regardless of platform, and |
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> leaving out the Prefix installs), the filesystem is up to gentoo right? |
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> ie, there wouldn't be a need for a particular platform to stick with |
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> FHS-2.3 would there? Once we migrate to FHS-3.0, we can migrate all |
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> archs and profiles at the same time? |
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Filesystem or file hierarchy? At least on Gentoo, the filesystem choice |
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has always been up to the installing admin, but in context I believe you |
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mean file hierarchy. |
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As for archs, I'm not familiar with the minor ones and really only know |
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about x86/amd64, but I don't see any reason the others, possibly with an |
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exception or two that could be single-cased as needed, can't migrate at |
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the same time. I do know some of them get stuck on for instance, older |
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glibc, for long periods, tho, and it wouldn't surprise me at all to have |
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one or more of the minor ones stuck on an old version of something that |
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would either need monkey-patch-backported to deal with the new FHS, or |
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have special-cases for various packages to deal with older layout due to |
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the old versions of one or two packages holding things up for that arch. |
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AFAIK vapier's the gentoo guy with the knowledge there, due to all his |
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work on exotic stuff like superh/sh and the new x32 stuff, or at least |
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he's the one that seems most active in discussions such as this. |
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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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