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On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 07:31:03 -0400 |
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"Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote: |
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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> |
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> > wrote: |
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> >> |
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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 |
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> >> we move everything around in the ebuild. |
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> >> We are deviating from upstream in this example. |
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> >> |
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> > |
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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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> > |
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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 |
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> > some 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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Not that I'm for or against the merge but note that openSUSE, which has |
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also switched to systemd, hasn't done the merge either. |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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