Hi,
> It appears most of the major distros (Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch,
> Solaris) have moved to merge the contents of /{bin,sbin,lib}/ into
> /usr/{bin,sbin,lib}/, with top-level symbolic links added for
> compatibility.
Sounds good to me, do you have an estimate how much work this is?
> There is a wiki page on freedesktop.org[1] that goes into the
> reasoning, and LWN[2][3] has also written about it.
>
> Is this something we would like to consider as well? It may be too
> late for 20.x but this change does appear to simplify things (at least
> for package maintainers).
I hope the 20.xx branch happens within the next "decision maker" call,
so one could already start some work on this to get things going just
after the branch.
Paul
> [1]: >
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/
> [2]: https://lwn.net/Articles/670071/
> [3]: https://lwn.net/Articles/483921/
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