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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: swift@g.o, robbat2@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:44:57
Message-Id: 20120102194341.3766edeb@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by Sven Vermeulen
1 On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 08:53:26 +0000
2 Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 07:59:47PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
5 > > The goal is to deprecate /bin, /lib, /sbin and /usr/sbin. My
6 > > understanding is that they want to move software that is installed
7 > > in /bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin to /usr/bin. Also, they want to move
8 > > everything from /lib to /usr/lib.
9 >
10 > I don't like this one bit. Things used to be simple with the "split"
11 > between /bin and /usr/bin (and its related directories), this isn't
12 > going to make it more simple.
13
14 Simple? Should I start requesting additional packages moved into rootfs
15 because I feel like needing them? Things can and will go more ugly,
16 and I wouldn't be surprised if anytime soon people will start
17 complaining because they ran out of space on their rootfs.
18
19 --
20 Best regards,
21 Michał Górny

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