From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DspZt-0002ZW-86 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:19:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6DMHuBW022170; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:17:56 GMT Received: from skinny.southernlinux.net (ns2.rednecks.net [64.192.52.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6DMGAh7030827 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:16:10 GMT Received: (qmail 29165 invoked by uid 210); 13 Jul 2005 18:15:37 -0400 Received: from 10.10.10.188 by skinny (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.82/977. f-prot: 4.4.2/3.14.11. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(10.10.10.188):. Processed in 0.060114 secs); 13 Jul 2005 22:15:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.10.188?) (10.10.10.188) by 0 with SMTP; 13 Jul 2005 18:15:37 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] wireless-tools/wpa_supplicant moves to / From: Ned Ludd To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1121279247.12134.8.camel@sponge.fungus> References: <1121279247.12134.8.camel@sponge.fungus> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:45:58 -0400 Message-Id: <1121291158.1850.18.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ee2981cf-7c03-4050-b475-bcb416996b70 X-Archives-Hash: b1cc1b111d13d050199d2bf064350110 On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 20:27 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a quick heads-up that starting with baselayout-1.11.13 and the > revision bumps I just committed for net-wireless/wireless-tools and > net-wireless/wpa_supplicant, those utilities will install to / instead > of /usr/, allowing people to mount /usr over an IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN > (bug #96654). > > Any applications that have hard-coded paths to either the wireless-tools > or the wpa_supplicant binaries will have to be changed to work with this > change. Why not just make symlinks in /usr so this is transparent to everybody? > > Regards, > Brix -- Ned Ludd -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list