Re: Merging /usr

2020-11-17 Thread Paul Spooren
Hi,

> It appears most of the major distros (Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch,
> Solaris) have moved to merge the contents of /{bin,sbin,lib}/ into
> /usr/{bin,sbin,lib}/, with top-level symbolic links added for
> compatibility.

Sounds good to me, do you have an estimate how much work this is?

> There is a wiki page on freedesktop.org[1] that goes into the
> reasoning, and LWN[2][3] has also written about it.
>
> Is this something we would like to consider as well? It may be too
> late for 20.x but this change does appear to simplify things (at least
> for package maintainers).

I hope the 20.xx branch happens within the next "decision maker" call,
so one could already start some work on this to get things going just
after the branch.

Paul

> [1]: > 
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/
> [2]: https://lwn.net/Articles/670071/
> [3]: https://lwn.net/Articles/483921/

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Merging /usr

2020-11-17 Thread Jeffery To
Hi,

It appears most of the major distros (Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch,
Solaris) have moved to merge the contents of /{bin,sbin,lib}/ into
/usr/{bin,sbin,lib}/, with top-level symbolic links added for
compatibility.

There is a wiki page on freedesktop.org[1] that goes into the
reasoning, and LWN[2][3] has also written about it.

Is this something we would like to consider as well? It may be too
late for 20.x but this change does appear to simplify things (at least
for package maintainers).

Jeff

[1]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/
[2]: https://lwn.net/Articles/670071/
[3]: https://lwn.net/Articles/483921/

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