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From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] some of the stuff in /usr that's become a problem
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 22:13:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130930031345.GA17815@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5248E00D.6010006@sporkbox.us>

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On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 09:21:01PM -0500, Daniel Campbell wrote:
> > /usr/lib/udev.....
> > /usr/lib/systemd.....
> > 
> > were both placed in /usr despite objections from a number of folks.
> > 
> > So claims that udev and systemd are not responsible are not true.

Udev is installed in / in gentoo. I am a co-maintainer of udev and that
was fixed quite some time back, it is the Gentoo systemd team that installs
their version of udev in /usr.

Installing udev or eudev, however, doesn't really solve the issue
though, because it is possible to run arbitrary programs from within
udev rules.

Another unrelated concern is if you install a program in / that needs to
access something in /usr/share, this will be broken by not having /usr
mounted. This means that, for example, the locale logic of most software
can't work without /usr since it accesses files in /usr/share/locale.

William


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-30  3:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-30  2:03 [gentoo-user] some of the stuff in /usr that's become a problem Greg Woodbury
2013-09-30  2:21 ` Daniel Campbell
2013-09-30  3:13   ` William Hubbs [this message]
2013-09-30  3:40     ` Daniel Campbell
2013-10-01  8:36       ` Greg Woodbury
2013-10-01  8:30     ` Greg Woodbury
2013-10-01  8:45       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-30  2:51 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2013-09-30  8:10 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick

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