On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Steven J Long
<sl...@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> As for the burden of ensuring that binaries installed to /{s,}bin don't link
> to libs in /usr, why not just automate a QA check for that, and let
> developers decide whether a fix is necessary? After all, core packages that
> do that even when configured with prefix and execprefix = /, aren't so
> portable, and Gentoo has always championed "doing the right thing" wrt
> helping upstream fix portability issues.The only issue with that logic is that upstream is perfectly aware of what they're doing already, and bugs are likely to be closed as WONTFIX. So, all the QA checks would do is ensure that we slowly start maintaining forks of more and more packages. Right now the problem is probably manageable, but I'm not convinced it will stay that way. Once upstream developers consider all constraints to be removed on their dependencies you could see a lot of stuff getting pulled into root if you tried to enforce this rule. In any case, it sounds like the directive is to keep limping along for a while longer, and that makes sense anyway until docs/etc are improved. I agree with Ralph's suggestion that the newer initramfs tools should be stabilized as well. Rich
