From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: add global USE flag 'split-sbin'
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 11:02:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191012160228.GA2481@linux1.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1bbad081be57654e20e590734ed8aa88dc6f6176.camel@gentoo.org>
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On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 01:11:49PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 13:00 +0200, David Seifert wrote:
> > * Some distros have not just merged / and /usr, they
> > have also merged /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. By giving
> > users the choice of merging */bin and */sbin,
> > Gentoo follows suit.
> >
>
> What about the scenario when /bin has been merged with /usr/sbin
> and /sbin with /usr/bin? ;-P
I also don't see the need for something like this. The idea of the /usr
merge is to have all binaries available in one place, and there really
is not a good justification for separating bin from sbin.
William
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-12 11:00 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: add global USE flag 'split-sbin' David Seifert
2019-10-12 11:11 ` Michał Górny
2019-10-12 16:02 ` William Hubbs [this message]
2019-10-12 17:01 ` Dennis Schridde
2019-10-12 17:52 ` David Seifert
2019-10-13 16:33 ` Mike Gilbert
2019-10-13 16:43 ` Mike Gilbert
2019-10-13 17:38 ` Michał Górny
2019-10-15 12:00 ` David Seifert
2019-10-15 16:02 ` Mike Gilbert
2019-10-15 16:04 ` Mike Gilbert
2019-10-15 17:34 ` David Seifert
2019-10-16 3:08 ` Joshua Kinard
2019-10-16 15:39 ` William Hubbs
2019-10-16 17:17 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-10-16 18:19 ` William Hubbs
2019-10-17 6:59 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-10-19 23:36 ` Joshua Kinard
2019-10-16 9:18 ` Jaco Kroon
2019-10-16 9:48 ` David Seifert
2019-10-16 10:03 ` Jaco Kroon
2019-10-16 10:38 ` Michał Górny
2019-10-16 16:06 ` William Hubbs
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