On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 03:35:55AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 12/16/2011 01:24 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: > > 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. > >
> > Doing this would be a simple change to debian-installer. > And a hell for upgrades on *a lot* of existing systems. The point of the above was to show that it could be made that upgrades would be unaffected by the change: it would only occur for new installs. I'm not saying that's the only way or the best way, just that it's one possibility to consider. 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/20111216001730.gl17...@codelibre.net
