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On 08/04/16 02:42, William Hubbs wrote: |
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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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I would expect this isn't the only example of this in Gentoo .. we |
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customise the packages to make sense to the Gentoo distro, not conform |
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to a multitude of random "standards" applied by many developers. So, |
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whilst I accept that its desirable to match 'upstream' - this isn't |
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always going to be possible. |
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I would also re-iterate, as I'm sure you're aware .. there ARE |
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differences between sbin and bin .. unless of course you spend all your |
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time in a Rooted VM where it doesn't matter if you accidentally trash |
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your system. Some of us maintain a sensible user/superuser distinction |
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for a variety of reasons, and simplifying your filesystem to suit some |
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particular package style doesn't really sound like good reasoning for |
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causing a lot of headaches for maintainers and a distro overall. |
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*puts the paint can down* |
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