On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 06:51:13PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: >> > Maybe we're talking at cross-purposes here; I was speaking about the >> > case of turning a directory into a symlink on upgrades, which cannot >> > safely be done while there are still files under it. > >> > Thinking more about it, this cannot be done even if all packages move >> > their files away from /usr, since an unknown amount of stuff exists >> > under /usr/local, so /usr can ever only be made a symlink to / for new >> > installs (or by the sysadmin). > >> I think it's about /usr/lib being a symlink to /lib. > > No, it isn't.
Then what is it about? I thought the problem was having both /lib and /usr/lib. Linking /usr to / would also solve that but is more complex than linking /usr/lib to /lib. Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinud2bkmeycecpajgddwvax67ukjpttbjdph...@mail.gmail.com
