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 1RiTnc-0002Jg-TP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:34:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33C1921C130; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:34:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amun.cheops.ods.org (amun.cheops.ods.org [83.161.135.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7BC021C04D for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:33:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nut.cheops.ods.org ([2001:888:1022:0:ca2a:14ff:fe35:7a00] helo=gentoo.org) by amun.cheops.ods.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1RiTm8-00081O-GM for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:33:18 +0100 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:33:15 +0100 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr Message-ID: <20120104163315.GV780@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <1325616625.7238.23.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <20120103190255.GA13817@linux1> <20120103191206.GP780@gentoo.org> <20120103200120.GB13936@linux1> <20120103212215.GU780@gentoo.org> <20120103230918.GA7247@linux1> <4F03A1AA.6070205@gentoo.org> <20120104091743.0e1cd91a@pomiocik.lan> <4F0440B3.4090500@gentoo.org> <20120104163734.07439f2b@pomiocik.lan> 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nttNpMvbgGqAbHxp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120104163734.07439f2b@pomiocik.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (Darwin 11.2.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. X-Content-Scanned: by amun.cheops.ods.org (Exim Exiscan) using SpamAssassin and ClamAV X-Archives-Salt: 15a880fe-ae2c-496a-9615-f94b4e48444c X-Archives-Hash: 182871e7f1a0118e601e59012321f571 --nttNpMvbgGqAbHxp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 04-01-2012 16:37:34 +0100, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > > And this part was not about the movement to /usr at all, so why do you > > suggest another movement here? And while you answer that, please also > > tell us, why you want to migrate packages to a different install > > location without a need. >=20 > Because we need to finally be able to fix mistakes made in the past > by other people. What mistakes? > > They install and work fine, so just keep it this way. I did not see > > any argument to move packages around, that work well and have no > > issue with their current install location. >=20 > What if, say, upstream introduces pkg-config file where our hacks will > cause it to be installed into /lib/pkgconfig? Should we then expand > the hack to cover that, and something else, and then another thing... Highly unlikely, but if it happens, easy to fix, so not really a convincing issue. --=20 Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level --nttNpMvbgGqAbHxp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAk8Ef0sACgkQX3X2B8XHTomS8QCfflHFXvU/ykRU5npzXg42XKOv WlMAoJO+oI5twc4uoxeDkutieVa28bKn =G5Te -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nttNpMvbgGqAbHxp--