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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
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On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 00:16:29 -0600
Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:59:47 -0600
> William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > Udev, kmod (which is a replacement for module-init-tools which will
> > be needed by >=udev-176), systemd, and soon others, are advocating
> > a major change to the locations where binaries and libraries are
> > stored on linux systems.
> > 
> > The goal is to deprecate /bin, /lib, /sbin and /usr/sbin. My
> > understanding is that they want to move software that is installed
> > in /bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin to /usr/bin. Also, they want to move
> > everything from /lib to /usr/lib.
> 
> I coulda swore April was another four months away...
> 
> 

no, in April they will declare the zillions of #!/bin/sh scripts
broken because they rely on a so old unix standard :=)

A.