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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:55:56
Message-Id: 20120102145439.65ee9f7d@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by Ryan Hill
1 On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 00:16:29 -0600
2 Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:59:47 -0600
5 > William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
6 >
7 > > Udev, kmod (which is a replacement for module-init-tools which will
8 > > be needed by >=udev-176), systemd, and soon others, are advocating
9 > > a major change to the locations where binaries and libraries are
10 > > stored on linux systems.
11 > >
12 > > The goal is to deprecate /bin, /lib, /sbin and /usr/sbin. My
13 > > understanding is that they want to move software that is installed
14 > > in /bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin to /usr/bin. Also, they want to move
15 > > everything from /lib to /usr/lib.
16 >
17 > I coulda swore April was another four months away...
18 >
19 >
20
21 no, in April they will declare the zillions of #!/bin/sh scripts
22 broken because they rely on a so old unix standard :=)
23
24 A.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>