On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:08:09 -0500 "G.Wolfe Woodbury" <redwo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/03/2012 10:53 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > On 01/01/12 03:53 AM, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 07:59:47PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > >>> The goal is to deprecate /bin, /lib, /sbin and /usr/sbin. My > >>> understanding is that they want to move software that is > >>> installed in /bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin to /usr/bin. Also, they > >>> want to move everything from /lib to /usr/lib. > >> > >> I don't like this one bit. Things used to be simple with the > >> "split" between > >> /bin and /usr/bin (and its related directories), this isn't going > >> to make it > >> more simple. > > > > I concurr. I will admit that I've been rather out of touch with > > what other distros are doing (and have been for ~3-4 years), but > > combining everything into /usr/bin just seems plain backwards and I > > am rather shocked that all the distros are moving that way. > > > > Has the LFH been updated?? Googling seems to say no, as the last > > mod seems to have been in 2004... I know that, technically, these > > are 'userspace' programs in that they aren't kernel-space, but > > they're still 'system' programs so to me it still makes sense for > > them to be on the 'system' side of the filesystem hierarchy, > > doesn't it? > The problem is that one group of developers is ignoring years of > history and purpose in the separation of /bin and /usr/bin and the > ability of having a separate /usr. This is in the udev development > team and they /deliberately/ placed or used some programs in /usr/bin > instead /bin and requiring that /usr bee in the root partition. Please, explain to me, how did they do it? As far as I am aware, autotools installs files where it is told to. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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