Re: Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

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Once upon a time, Emanuel Rietveld <codehotter@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> On 02/01/2012 01:32 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >To-be-installed files obviously have no on-disk fingerprints, so it 
> >wont work for initial installation. So yes, those "fake" compatibility 
> >provides are needed. Strictly speaking, compatibility provides would 
> >be needed for ALL the moved files, not just /bin, as it's technically 
> >perfectly legal for a package to depend on an arbitrary path in 
> >/lib[64], not just /[s]bin.
> >
> >    - Panu -
> 
> Would it be possible to leave out these provides and fix each individual 
> package to require in the new path instead?

It isn't practical to "fix" every package that requires /bin/sh.

There sure seems to be a lot of uncertainty for a "feature" that is
supposedly ready to land.
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