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On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 11:07:59AM +0900, Benda Xu wrote: |
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> Hi William, |
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> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> writes: |
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> > The second change is that baselayout is taking ownership of most of the |
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> > directories it creates. This includes all directories in / and /usr |
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> > excluding /lib* and /usr/lib*. Once we drop support for SYMLINK_LIB, |
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> > baselayout will take ownership of /lib* and /usr/lib* as well. |
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> This is an abrupt change that will affect many users. I suggest a |
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> lengthy explanation (blog post, wiki page or important emails) to be |
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> attached as a reference in this news item. |
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> So a user will be able to study the rationales behind this change before |
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> unmasking baselayout-2.5 on their machines. |
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Baselayout currently goes out of its way not to own these, but there's |
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no rationale documented anywhere for why it does this. |
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From what I've seen in some testing I've done, it shouldn't break |
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anything. I will test again before I actually push the release on |
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another machine. |
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William |
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