On 4/8/16 7:41 AM, James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 07:31:03 -0400 > "Anthony G. Basile" <bluen...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> 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. > > Not that I'm for or against the merge but note that openSUSE, which has > also switched to systemd, hasn't done the merge either. >
As I'm getting into this thread, I'm looking at debian, fedora and I'll add openSUSE. I just don't get why a usr merge is as good as that fedora page says. -- 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
