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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: tommy@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:17:39
Message-Id: 20120104091743.0e1cd91a@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by Thomas Sachau
1 On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:47:38 +0100
2 Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > 2. switching from udev to mdev (avoids required /usr of udev)
5 > 3. some wrapper script to mount /usr before udev starts
6
7 These two should be really discouraged as a cheap, temporary solution.
8 We should not support hate-admining. I personally think that busybox is
9 ready to go into /usr even earlier than udev.
10
11 > For the idea of complete migration to /usr, i see no reason to go this
12 > route in advance. Just keep with our default install locations and
13 > follow upstream, if and where needed.
14
15 What about upstreams who do not care? In other words, all those
16 packages which we hack to install into rootfs?
17
18 --
19 Best regards,
20 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o>