From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C68AF138334 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:02:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AE2AE0951; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:02:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4750DE08F7 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:02:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from linux1.home (cpe-66-68-48-101.austin.res.rr.com [66.68.48.101]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: williamh) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4488634BC98; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:02:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (nullmailer pid 2557 invoked by uid 1000); Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:02:28 -0000 Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 11:02:28 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: David Seifert Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: add global USE flag 'split-sbin' Message-ID: <20191012160228.GA2481@linux1.home> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, David Seifert References: <20191012110023.165840-1-soap@gentoo.org> <1bbad081be57654e20e590734ed8aa88dc6f6176.camel@gentoo.org> 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1bbad081be57654e20e590734ed8aa88dc6f6176.camel@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Archives-Salt: 1cbb6d9c-0ab9-41e6-bd1b-1af1d892ea77 X-Archives-Hash: c4248f0f0f3df862d966f84357ff1dae --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 01:11:49PM +0200, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny 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. > >=20 >=20 > 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 --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQTVeuxEZo4uUHOkQAluVBb0MMRlOAUCXaH5CwAKCRBuVBb0MMRl OEi1AJ9R6LVpebmyG8sLZOmuY5FbaAYC7ACgofU52Yti3PV8uv5TClM6+YFgNPg= =mTUL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8--