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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] wireless-tools/wpa_supplicant moves to /
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:19:41
Message-Id: 1121291158.1850.18.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] wireless-tools/wpa_supplicant moves to / by Henrik Brix Andersen
1 On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 20:27 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > Just a quick heads-up that starting with baselayout-1.11.13 and the
5 > revision bumps I just committed for net-wireless/wireless-tools and
6 > net-wireless/wpa_supplicant, those utilities will install to / instead
7 > of /usr/, allowing people to mount /usr over an IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN
8 > (bug #96654).
9 >
10
11
12 > Any applications that have hard-coded paths to either the wireless-tools
13 > or the wpa_supplicant binaries will have to be changed to work with this
14 > change.
15
16 Why not just make symlinks in /usr so this is transparent to everybody?
17
18
19 >
20 > Regards,
21 > Brix
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23 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
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