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On 03-01-2012 13:02:55 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 01:50:25PM -0500, Olivier Crête wrote: |
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> > I don't see what breakage would be caused by a big-bang update (move |
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> > everything in /sbin,/bin/,usr/sbin to usr/bin and add symlinks. I really |
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> > doubt any system has a /usr so tight that adding the couple things that |
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> > are in / to /usr/bin would break it.. Btw, this also includes /lib* |
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> > to /usr/lib*. |
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> I think the best way to do this part of it is going to be to just follow |
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> the upstream packages. When they release a new version that installs in |
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> /usr, just allow that to happen. Eventually there will be very little in |
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> /{bin,sbin,lib}, maybe nothing besides a couple of symbolic links like |
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> /bin/sh. |
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What packages would that be? If you're thinking about coreutils, just |
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trim down the ebuild by not moving some of the tools to /bin. Our |
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ebuild makes it conform to FHS, not the coreutils buildsystem itself. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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