Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

[William Hubbs]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 05:39:39AM +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Olivier Crête posted on Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:17:50 -0500 as excerpted:
>
> > On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 12:46 -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> >> I don't think the /{bin,sbin,lib} and /usr/sbin directories should be
> >> deleted.
> >>
> >> However, what I would like to see is that the package maintainers would
> >> be responsible for creating any compatibility symlinks their package
> >> needs, not portage. I don't think it is a good idea to have portage or
> >> any package manager controling the migration.
> >
> > The other option is to do mv /bin/* /sbin/* /usr/sbin/* /usr/bin; and
> > then create symlinks from the other dirs to /usr/bin.. That can be done
> > in big move, it's the way Fedora is going to do it.
>
> That's what I had in mind, and in fact have already been thinking about
> trying, here.
>
> Which is why I don't really like the idea of packages placing symlinks,
> since then it'd likely be the symlink copied last, overwriting the actual
> binary with the symlink... pointing at itself due to the symlinked dirs!

If we don't use symlinks at all, we do not have to
force everything in one big move like this, just allow the
package maintainers to update things as new releases come out or do rev
bumps to move their packages. Eventually everything will be off of
/{bin,sbin,lib} and be installed in /usr.

William