Ian Stakenvicius posted on Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:03:32 -0500 as excerpted: > On 03/01/12 11:51 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > >> For example, consider what happens when bash or all of coreutils >> migrate to /usr. > > ..well, when /bin/sh no longer exists then there -will- be issues, > system-wide, on a massive scale. Unless shells or environments can > dynamically map that hash-bang to an appropriate interpreter (ie, > themselves) automatically. > > *shudder*.. I don't even want to think about the migration i'd have to > do to handle that change.
FWIW, I was reading a review of [was it GOBO Linux?, some distro that's famous for reorganizing things much like MS does, a program files dir, etc], and it was said to still contained a /bin with only a couple symlinks, /bin/bash and /bin/sh, for this very reason. Of course fedora uses an initr* so real-root and /usr will be mounted at the same time, and they're doing a /bin -> /usr/bin symlink at least for now, so they don't need to worry about that in the short term either. Longer term, possibly they'll try to get rid of it, but I expect at least some form of /bin/sh and/or /bin/bash symlink to remain around for quite some time. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
