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On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 08:39:07PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 01:18:01PM -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote: |
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> > Personally I think that merging things into /usr is a major policy decision |
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> > that is likely to contravene upstream installation locations. I wouldn't |
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> > do it lightly, if at all. |
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> Actually, there are upstreams that already do this, and we are the ones |
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> that move things around. |
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> Specifically, one example is coreutils. The ebuild installs everything |
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> in /usr/bin, then we move all of the binaries around. |
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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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William |
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