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 1RhHRS-0007tn-BE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:10:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D27B821C059; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 09:10:43 +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 A397B21C020 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 09:10:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbup6 with SMTP id up6so12978313obb.40 for ; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:10:18 -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; bh=6yvx98mWIzEUmwHf39xRYayjEb/d6ASetXqD5bbyREs=; b=Bb8kmzzv81XFBvkEj2iaLCllM9DsgTg+1YgsjJkoMJcwBS50JA/4L0YtSuV7EHjTSS XGLn9fwutGSeJ9jJV0oEXg/7WwdSqZA8ULNx6HWvTl3zzUopD5D3B6S2ubmhPsQEfnoJ f7oWpN8jgfujDm+TIiljIQn7dd3jGpchO47RU= Received: by 10.182.39.10 with SMTP id l10mr14752570obk.7.1325409018098; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:10:18 -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; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 01:09:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120101085326.GA1928@gentoo.org> References: <20120101015947.GA9914@linux1> <20120101085326.GA1928@gentoo.org> From: Nirbheek Chauhan Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 14:39:57 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: iQ1FPZzyjeQlbGOuIyvtn9lYucI Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, robbat2@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 5d600800-82d8-4e15-8ac9-8bbaa3a94a86 X-Archives-Hash: 166d29d54b20e5f20652f56a05af51f2 On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 07:59:47PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: >> The goal is to deprecate /bin, /lib, /sbin and /usr/sbin. My >> understanding is that they want to move software that is installed in >> /bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin to /usr/bin. Also, they want to move >> everything from /lib to /usr/lib. > > I don't like this one bit. Things used to be simple with the "split" between > /bin and /usr/bin (and its related directories), this isn't going to make it > more simple. Actually, I've always thought that the split between /usr/bin and /bin was quite arbitrary. However, I would like to note that merging /bin and /usr/bin would break some app combinations like bzip2+pbzip2, so that problem also needs to be solved (via eselect perhaps). Overall, this change "feels" wrong to me, but there's nothing intrinsically wrong with what they're suggesting. OTOH, it's probably just going to cause chaos and further divergence between distros for little gain. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team