On Sat, 18.04.09 01:15, Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Chris Adams wrote: > > Aside from any "religious" debate, there's a practical problem: last > > time anything like this was tried, rpm couldn't handle moving > > directories to symlinks. That's why init.d is still under /etc/rc.d > > instead of just /etc (and /etc/init.d is a symlink). > > This can be hacked around with some fragile %pretrans hackery. That said, I > don't think that'd be feasible for such a radical change (affecting nearly > all packages), it'd have to be done by some special-case code (which is a > strong argument not to do it). I don't think the switch would be that complicated. The packagers could change --prefix=/usr to --prefix=/ in the spec files whenever they want. And when the last package is updated accordingly and a bit of time passed and /usr is empty it could be replaced by a symlink. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
