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On 08/13/2013 01:08 PM, Alessio Ababilov wrote: |
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> 2013/8/13 the <the.guard@××××.ru <mailto:the.guard@××××.ru>> |
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> The site doesn't describe any real problems. |
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> Well, it is a question to discuss. |
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> I am not going to begin a holy war, I would like just to provide a |
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> possibility to perform a harmless /usr merge for those who share |
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> FreeDesktop's opinion. |
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> Also I don't see how the current dir tree is not compatible |
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> with gnu autoconf/automake. |
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> In a simple way: please look at coreutils-8.20.ebuild that has to move a |
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> lot of binaries from /usr/bin to /bin: |
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> cd "${D}"/usr/bin |
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> dodir /bin |
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> # move critical binaries into /bin (required by FHS) |
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> local fhs="cat chgrp chmod chown cp date dd df echo |
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> false ln ls |
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> mkdir mknod mv pwd rm rmdir stty sync true uname" |
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> mv ${fhs} ../../bin/ || die "could not move fhs bins" |
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> 2013/8/13 pk <peterk2@××××××××.se <mailto:peterk2@××××××××.se>> |
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> So, how would this work for me who have /usr on a separate harddrive? |
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> If you have an initrd, it will work. |
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> Anyway, I just look for people that are interested in /usr merge. |
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> And what would be the benefit? To me, mentioning Fedora, makes the alarm |
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> bells go off... |
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> Yes. it does. Fedora is a big distro sponsored by Red Hat and its /usr |
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> merge will be in RHEL-7. That's not a great idea to fight against |
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> upstream if it will do /usr merge. Remember, /bin/mail now is moved to |
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> /usr/bin/mail - what will be the next? |
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> Sincerely, |
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> Alessio Ababilov |
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> Senior Software Engineer |
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> Grid Dynamics |
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Red Hat is only upstream for GNOME and systemd. What they choose to do |
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with their distro should not affect the choices of any other distro. I |
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see no reason for a /usr merge unless one is using Fedora or wants to |
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turn their Gentoo installation into a makeshift Fedora installation. |
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This merge should not be forced on Gentoo whatsoever. |
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