On 03/14/12 19:37, Greg KH wrote: >> Portage provides use with the ability to do abstractions that other >> distributions cannot do, such as permitting people to merge >> /usr{bin,lib{32,64,},sbin} into /. > > Sure, but that doesn't mean that the packages that are being merged will > actually work :) > > greg k-h I proposed a way that this could work with no effort on the part of the Gentoo developers in one of my earlier emails: On 03/14/12 17:05, Richard Yao wrote: > In the meantime, it should be possible to create a global usr USE flag > that enables/disables gen_usr_ldscript. It would then be possible to > delete all of the usr ldscripts, dump /usr into / and symlink /usr to /. > The dynamic linker would go to / before /usr and it would be trivial to > modify $PATH to ignore /usr entirely. Legacy software that requires > /usr/{bin,sbin} would still work while those that want a separate /usr > mount could symlink /usr/{bin,include,libexec,sbin} into their rootfs > counterparts.