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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: David Seifert <soap@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: add global USE flag 'split-sbin'
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:02:35
Message-Id: 20191012160228.GA2481@linux1.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: add global USE flag 'split-sbin' by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 01:11:49PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 13:00 +0200, David Seifert wrote:
3 > > * Some distros have not just merged / and /usr, they
4 > > have also merged /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. By giving
5 > > users the choice of merging */bin and */sbin,
6 > > Gentoo follows suit.
7 > >
8 >
9 > What about the scenario when /bin has been merged with /usr/sbin
10 > and /sbin with /usr/bin? ;-P
11
12 I also don't see the need for something like this. The idea of the /usr
13 merge is to have all binaries available in one place, and there really
14 is not a good justification for separating bin from sbin.
15
16 William

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: add global USE flag 'split-sbin' Dennis Schridde <devurandom@×××.net>