On 4/8/16 6:14 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:42 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> There was a bypo here. "the ebuild" should be upstream. The default >> installation location of all coreutils binaries is /usr/bin, then we >> move everything around in the ebuild. >> We are deviating from upstream in this example. >> > > Keep in mind that following upstream and the /usr merge are somewhat > orthogonal. You can just install those binaries in /usr without > merging everything over. > > The only issue is that without the merge anybody embedding a path to > these binaries would have to fix their packages. Presumably to aid > the transition a symlink (at the file level) would be needed for some > period of time. >
@anyone, can you list the reasons we're doing this (I'm sure there's more than one). If systemd if one of them, then I'm confused because debian has switched to systemd and yet has not merged usr. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA
