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On 04/10/2012 07:28 PM, Steven J Long wrote: |
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> I suppose you could script that, but again, it just seems like a lot of |
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> bother to implement an "alternative" that doesn't actually gain anything |
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> over the traditional setup (plus making sure that partitions are mounted |
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> before udev starts.) |
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At least in the case of udev, we gain from not having to maintain a fork. |
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> As for the burden of ensuring that binaries installed to /{s,}bin don't link |
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> to libs in /usr, why not just automate a QA check for that, and let |
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> developers decide whether a fix is necessary? After all, core packages that |
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> do that even when configured with prefix and execprefix = /, aren't so |
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> portable, and Gentoo has always championed "doing the right thing" wrt |
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> helping upstream fix portability issues. |
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If the relevant ebuild developers really want to support that, it's fine |
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I guess. Hopefully that won't involve using static links as workarounds |
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for cross-/usr dependencies. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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