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On 03/14/12 19:37, Greg KH wrote: |
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>> Portage provides use with the ability to do abstractions that other |
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>> distributions cannot do, such as permitting people to merge |
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>> /usr{bin,lib{32,64,},sbin} into /. |
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> Sure, but that doesn't mean that the packages that are being merged will |
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> actually work :) |
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> greg k-h |
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I proposed a way that this could work with no effort on the part of the |
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Gentoo developers in one of my earlier emails: |
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On 03/14/12 17:05, Richard Yao wrote: |
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> In the meantime, it should be possible to create a global usr USE flag |
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> that enables/disables gen_usr_ldscript. It would then be possible to |
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> delete all of the usr ldscripts, dump /usr into / and symlink /usr to /. |
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> The dynamic linker would go to / before /usr and it would be trivial to |
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> modify $PATH to ignore /usr entirely. Legacy software that requires |
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> /usr/{bin,sbin} would still work while those that want a separate /usr |
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> mount could symlink /usr/{bin,include,libexec,sbin} into their rootfs |
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> counterparts. |
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