From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RhRst-0006FY-Lj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:19:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A06F721C192; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 20:19:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65E1721C028 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 20:17:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.102] (modemcable002.97-23-96.mc.videotron.ca [96.23.97.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tester) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8DA291B4020 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 20:17:52 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1325449070.12935.20.camel@TesterTop4> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr From: Olivier =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cr=EAte?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:17:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20120101184647.GA12092@linux1> References: <20120101015947.GA9914@linux1> <20120101183259.GB11860@linux1> <20120101184647.GA12092@linux1> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-9+lYVLN/6QbKsBkQJBUZ" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2 (3.2.2-1.fc16) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: 8c9e5034-2a30-48cd-abe5-654eb7a1465a X-Archives-Hash: a2dd3bb44cdd6f85f1d598dfd311ae2c --=-9+lYVLN/6QbKsBkQJBUZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 12:46 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > I don't think the /{bin,sbin,lib} and /usr/sbin directories should be > deleted. >=20 > However, what I would like to see is that the package maintainers would > be responsible for creating any compatibility symlinks their package > needs, not portage. I don't think it is a good idea to have portage or > any package manager controling the migration. The other option is to do mv /bin/* /sbin/* /usr/sbin/* /usr/bin; and then create symlinks from the other dirs to /usr/bin.. That can be done in big move, it's the way Fedora is going to do it. --=20 Olivier Cr=C3=AAte tester@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer --=-9+lYVLN/6QbKsBkQJBUZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk8Av24ACgkQHTiOWk7ZorsF7ACfbUsVI/Ul20jjcRQ2cUXzW/0P GocAnRfrLgsqerVyGieCfztcYXhlx995 =ezAT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-9+lYVLN/6QbKsBkQJBUZ--