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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] some of the stuff in /usr that's become a problem
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 03:13:58
Message-Id: 20130930031345.GA17815@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] some of the stuff in /usr that's become a problem by Daniel Campbell
1 On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 09:21:01PM -0500, Daniel Campbell wrote:
2 > > /usr/lib/udev.....
3 > > /usr/lib/systemd.....
4 > >
5 > > were both placed in /usr despite objections from a number of folks.
6 > >
7 > > So claims that udev and systemd are not responsible are not true.
8
9 Udev is installed in / in gentoo. I am a co-maintainer of udev and that
10 was fixed quite some time back, it is the Gentoo systemd team that installs
11 their version of udev in /usr.
12
13 Installing udev or eudev, however, doesn't really solve the issue
14 though, because it is possible to run arbitrary programs from within
15 udev rules.
16
17 Another unrelated concern is if you install a program in / that needs to
18 access something in /usr/share, this will be broken by not having /usr
19 mounted. This means that, for example, the locale logic of most software
20 can't work without /usr since it accesses files in /usr/share/locale.
21
22 William

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Re: [gentoo-user] some of the stuff in /usr that's become a problem Daniel Campbell <lists@××××××××.us>
Re: [gentoo-user] some of the stuff in /usr that's become a problem Greg Woodbury <redwolfe@×××××.com>