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On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 19:01 +0200, Dennis Schridde wrote: |
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> On Samstag, 12. Oktober 2019 18:02:28 CEST William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 01:11:49PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > > On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 13:00 +0200, David Seifert wrote: |
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> > > > * Some distros have not just merged / and /usr, they |
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> > > > |
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> > > > have also merged /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. By giving |
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> > > > users the choice of merging */bin and */sbin, |
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> > > > Gentoo follows suit. |
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> > > |
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> > > What about the scenario when /bin has been merged with /usr/sbin |
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> > > and /sbin with /usr/bin? ;-P |
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> > |
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> > I also don't see the need for something like this. The idea of the |
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> > /usr |
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> > merge is to have all binaries available in one place, and there |
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> > really |
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> > is not a good justification for separating bin from sbin. |
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> Do I read this correctly? USE=-split-usr currently means that /bin, |
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> /sbin, / |
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> usr/bin and /usr/sbin point to the same directory? |
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> If that is not the case, then I agree that users should have the |
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> possibility |
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> to set it up like this and USE=-split-sbin should be supported. |
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> --Dennis |
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I agree, I wasn't aware that USE=-split-usr implies the complete 2- |
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level (/usr and *sbin) merge. In that case, all of this is obsolete. |
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