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  • From: Jaka Kranjc <smgl AT lynxlynx.info>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] /usr merge
  • Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:11:34 +0100

On Tuesday 07 of February 2012 21:19:23 Robin Cook wrote:
> Not that I agree with the merger but isn't merger to move everything
> in /bin, /sbin etc. into /usr/bin, /usr/sbin etc. not the other way
> around? I just wanted to make sure I read the stuff correctly.
I was illustrating that most software is already installed there and that
they
won't go changing the system on a whim. As packagers we are well aware that
it
is often not just about passing a different --bindir.

LP

> On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 11:40 +0100, Jaka Kranjc wrote:
> >
> > I agree and also don't see it as inevitable. Do they think upstream will
> > go
> > "well, since we have a merged /usr now, let's change all our build scripts
> > to install to /bin instead of /usr/bin etc."?
> >
> > LP
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