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 1RiAEQ-00009M-P2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:41:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 591EC21C05E; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 19:41:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-tul01m020-f181.google.com (mail-tul01m020-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7CA721C046 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 19:40:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbup6 with SMTP id up6so15205650obb.40 for ; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:40:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=m3WOH4yl6zW7uD88Q9QDJczu06SbcPoqMWzTwTgsFik=; b=oiojRIV3/sMrgamsVeV9q6PO5sSCCFbxG3dHJwhWDyamptapxVN18ls0oll/bBYph2 uDvNBt54wcj5aD3M6WLTlluq6tAnGfb6C36OtA+4q4zP/vKus+skR39RkT3RMGxHol9Q MRplYHjXx5cha9B/NYJIgb9PVIrLNO8pSY30I= Received: by 10.182.197.104 with SMTP id it8mr45941337obc.17.1325619610245; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:40:10 -0800 (PST) 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 Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.182.134.9 with HTTP; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 11:39:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120103183608.GB13702@linux1> References: <20120101015947.GA9914@linux1> <20120103095157.GC1961@waltdnes.org> <20120103151035.GA13017@linux1> <4F032F62.9050800@gentoo.org> <20120103183608.GB13702@linux1> From: Nirbheek Chauhan Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 01:09:49 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: T2gI9zNBQAVAT4aPrm_hswS9qCk Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: b9e144ed-06bd-4d45-9585-642aa632b05d X-Archives-Hash: 202928e5f3e70ff99fd7e9d7ba1f63c2 On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:06 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 11:40:02AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> I don't think anyone's asked this yet: >> >> Do we NEED to deprecate /bin,/sbin,/usr/sbin,/lib ? =C2=A0I realize that >> udev/kmod/systemd are moving, but there isn't anything in particular >> that would require everything else to move, is there? > > Well, I don't think everything is going to move immediately. The way I > see this happening is, udev/systemd/kmod are moving first, then other > upstreams will move their software. > >From what I can make out, *only* udev and systemd are making this a hard-and-fast thing so far. kmod has added a configure argument, and no one else has moved yet. In reality, fedora is patching a lot of packages to make them install in /usr. *If* GNU packages decide to move to /usr, *then* we can contemplate moving. Till then, I say let's just do whatever Debian is doing. --=20 ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team