Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib
Hi!
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 13:43:19 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Roger Leigh wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Didn't the hurd port try this several years ago? My impression was that
> they didn't feel it had been worth the pain, perhaps it's not so easy.
The old default was changed for GNU/Hurd not because the setup in itself
was considered particularly painful, more because doing so for a single
port w/o getting the distribution at large to agree this was something
worth supporting was painful as overwrite problems were continuously
introduced.
regards,
guillem
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