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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:21:51 -0500
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Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?
From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> > Should perl be in / or /usr?
>>
>> Now that is a good question, if only because Perl traditionally _loathes_
>> being in /bin, for its own philosophical reasons.
>>
>
>
>> Now, as a practical matter? WTF are the scripts written in Perl? Or in
>> anything other than sh? If they're intended for emergency use, they've got
>> some pretty fat dependencies, and should probably be launched from a full
>> rescue environment instead. Or the log files should be copied to some place
>> with more featureful tools available.
>
>
> Can perl be built statically and moved to / by the admin for this
> corner case?
Certainly, but you still have modules to consider...but those can of
course be bundled.
>
> If not you should have all the tools to fix /usr in root and then if
> anything needs fixing via perl then you should be able to mount /usr or
> mount -a and have a fully working single user system to run perl from.
Indeed. The only reason I can imagine this to not be the case is if
the mount for /usr fails. Most of the reasons imaginable also apply
equally strongly to initramfs+root-on-special-mount and
everything-in-/usr.
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