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On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:35:51PM +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Ian Stakenvicius posted on Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:03:32 -0500 as excerpted:
>=20
> > On 03/01/12 11:51 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
> >=20
> >> For example, consider what happens when bash or all of coreutils
> >> migrate to /usr.
> >=20
> > ..well, when /bin/sh no longer exists then there -will- be issues,
> > system-wide, on a massive scale. Unless shells or environments can
> > dynamically map that hash-bang to an appropriate interpreter (ie,
> > themselves) automatically.
> >=20
> > *shudder*.. I don't even want to think about the migration i'd have to
> > do to handle that change.
>=20
> FWIW, I was reading a review of [was it GOBO Linux?, some distro that's=
=20
> famous for reorganizing things much like MS does, a program files dir,=20
> etc], and it was said to still contained a /bin with only a couple=20
> symlinks, /bin/bash and /bin/sh, for this very reason.
>=20
> Of course fedora uses an initr* so real-root and /usr will be mounted at=
=20
> the same time, and they're doing a /bin -> /usr/bin symlink at least for=
=20
> now, so they don't need to worry about that in the short term either. =20
> Longer term, possibly they'll try to get rid of it, but I expect at least=
=20
> some form of /bin/sh and/or /bin/bash symlink to remain around for quite=
=20
> some time.
Yes, the symlinks will be around for some time for this reason, but,
/bin/sh will point to /usr/bin/bash, so you have the same affect if /usr
is not mounted since the symlink can't be resolved.
William
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