Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 03:35:55AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 12/16/2011 01:24 AM, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > Hi Riku,
> >
> > I think an important point to consider is that /usr would not
> > disappear. It could be replaced by a symlink for new installs.
> > This would permit older installs to continue to use /usr, but
> > the files would end up on / for new installs. So no changes
> > to --prefix would be needed, and the Debian packages themselves
> > could still provide files in /usr.
> >
> > Doing this would be a simple change to debian-installer.
> And a hell for upgrades on *a lot* of existing systems.
The point of the above was to show that it could be made that upgrades
would be unaffected by the change: it would only occur for new
installs. I'm not saying that's the only way or the best way, just
that it's one possibility to consider.
Regards,
Roger
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