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On 2021-08-04 04:56, Sam James wrote: |
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> Sure, thanks for the clarification. It's deprecated in the sense of |
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> ebuilds installing to it though, right? |
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Well, it triggered me because saying it's deprecated implies two things |
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for me: |
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1) It was OK for packages to do that in the past |
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2) Something has changed upstream |
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Regarding 1) |
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It was never OK for packages to install in that location. That will |
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break the override mechanism systemd introduced. I.e. packages were and |
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are still only allowed to install below /usr (/lib), to allow local |
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system administrators to override installed unit/tmpfiles spec by |
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placing a file with the same name in the corresponding directory in /etc. |
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Regarding 2) |
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Nothing has changed upstream regarding these locations. |
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I personally hope that this QA check will never fire in hope we never |
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added an ebuild doing something like that but in the end, that's the |
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idea of having such a check: To notice something like that, just in case ;-) |
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Regards, |
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Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer |
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