Hello,
On Sat 26 Aug 2023 at 03:47pm +01, Luca Boccassi wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 at 10:35:42 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
>> > Suse [...] tried [symlink farms similar to those that Ian proposes]
>> > for a few years, then had to backtrack and
>> > go the way everyone else successfully went instead, which quickly wrapped up as
>> > expected.
>>
>> I alluded to that in a previous mail to this thread, but I don't have
>> first-hand knowledge of the specifics of how that went, and it sounds
>> as though you might. Do you have references that you can point us to?
>> (To the list or as private email for me to summarize on-list later,
>> whichever seems more appropriate.
>
> https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Usr_merge_preparation#initial_situation_in_openSUSE
On this page it says
The previous approach did not explain how to transition from
[symlinks in /bin] to the actual directories as symlinks though.
This implies that opensuse's goal was to get to the symlinked layout we
have now, with something like Ian's preferred layout as an intermediate
step. But then problems they encountered in trying to reach Ian's
preferred layout as an intermediate step need not be encountered when
trying to reach Ian's layout as a desired end state. So, I'm not sure
we can use opensuse's experience as so straightforward a case to learn
from.
--
Sean Whitton
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