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On 07/17/2012 09:28 PM, Jeff Horelick wrote: |
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> On 17 July 2012 21:17, Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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>> On 07/17/2012 08:46 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>>> If we don't do anything, then lots of stuff moves to /usr. I think |
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>>> that is what you're missing. The /usr move basically starts happening |
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>>> on its own automatically if we DON'T do much. This is because |
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>>> upstream is the one pushing it. |
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>> Which upstream is pushing this? So far, only RedHat wants this and their |
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>> ability to get various upstreams to try to force it is rather limited. |
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>> The only upstream where I have seen any indication that this could be |
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>> forced is systemd. |
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> Forgetting that GNOME is mostly managed by RedHat employees, OpenSuSE |
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> and Mageia tend to follow RedHat's lead....I can probably go on if I |
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> cared to do more research. |
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GNOME is part of the GNU project, so we should be safe unless they |
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decide against portability. OpenSuSe and Mageia are other distributions, |
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so they are not upstream for us. |
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