On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 14:39:57 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbh...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Sven Vermeulen <sw...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 07:59:47PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > >> The goal is to deprecate /bin, /lib, /sbin and /usr/sbin. My > >> understanding is that they want to move software that is installed > >> in /bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin to /usr/bin. Also, they want to move > >> everything from /lib to /usr/lib. > > > > I don't like this one bit. Things used to be simple with the > > "split" between /bin and /usr/bin (and its related directories), > > this isn't going to make it more simple. > > Actually, I've always thought that the split between /usr/bin and /bin > was quite arbitrary. However, I would like to note that merging /bin > and /usr/bin would break some app combinations like bzip2+pbzip2, so > that problem also needs to be solved (via eselect perhaps). Well, that /usr/bin idea of mine was quite hacky anyway. I don't think we should even consider it here. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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