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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:08:25
Message-Id: 20120101001629.51c8108a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by William Hubbs
1 On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:59:47 -0600
2 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Udev, kmod (which is a replacement for module-init-tools which will be needed
5 > by >=udev-176), systemd, and soon others, are advocating a major change
6 > to the locations where binaries and libraries are stored on linux
7 > systems.
8 >
9 > The goal is to deprecate /bin, /lib, /sbin and /usr/sbin. My
10 > understanding is that they want to move software that is installed in
11 > /bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin to /usr/bin. Also, they want to move
12 > everything from /lib to /usr/lib.
13
14 I coulda swore April was another four months away...
15
16
17 --
18 fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense how it makes no sense
19 toolchain, wxwidgets but i'll take it free anytime
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>