Hi! On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 13:43:19 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > I think an important point to consider is that /usr would not > > disappear. It could be replaced by a symlink for new installs. > > This would permit older installs to continue to use /usr, but > > the files would end up on / for new installs. So no changes > > to --prefix would be needed, and the Debian packages themselves > > could still provide files in /usr. > > Didn't the hurd port try this several years ago? My impression was that > they didn't feel it had been worth the pain, perhaps it's not so easy.
The old default was changed for GNU/Hurd not because the setup in itself was considered particularly painful, more because doing so for a single port w/o getting the distribution at large to agree this was something worth supporting was painful as overwrite problems were continuously introduced. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
