On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 07:17:53PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 01:29:18PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Well, I think I still need persuading that this is the right direction > > to move the files. I still think that moving /usr to / is a better > > strategy > > I think we would need a very, very good reason to migrate away from /usr. > Fedora already is going the other way (/lib,bin to /usr). Going the other > way would increase fragmentation in Linux and make essentially FHS history. > > Moving everything to /usr is also less work, no need to get rid of the > --prefix=/usr in most packages in debian...
Hi Riku, I think an important point to consider is that /usr would not disappear. It could be replaced by a symlink for new installs. This would permit older installs to continue to use /usr, but the files would end up on / for new installs. So no changes to --prefix would be needed, and the Debian packages themselves could still provide files in /usr. So none of this would break any FHS paths, or make us incompatible with Fedora. In both situations, the same files will be present in /bin and /usr/bin (and the same for all common subdirectories). Doing this would be a simple change to debian-installer. It might require a few other minor tweaks e.g. to dpkg-shlibdeps when considering library search paths, but this isn't new--we've already gone down this route for GNU/Hurd in the past. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- 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/20111215172412.gj17...@codelibre.net
