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On 4/8/16 6:14 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:42 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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>> There was a bypo here. "the ebuild" should be upstream. The default |
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>> installation location of all coreutils binaries is /usr/bin, then we |
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>> move everything around in the ebuild. |
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>> We are deviating from upstream in this example. |
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> Keep in mind that following upstream and the /usr merge are somewhat |
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> orthogonal. You can just install those binaries in /usr without |
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> merging everything over. |
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> The only issue is that without the merge anybody embedding a path to |
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> these binaries would have to fix their packages. Presumably to aid |
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> the transition a symlink (at the file level) would be needed for some |
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> period of time. |
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@anyone, can you list the reasons we're doing this (I'm sure there's |
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more than one). If systemd if one of them, then I'm confused because |
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debian has switched to systemd and yet has not merged usr. |
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