On Fri, 10.02.12 12:11, Michael Schroeder (mls@xxxxxxx) wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:28:59AM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > > It has been approved, other distributions are following. It is very > > clear you do not want this. But at the same time, it is happening in > > Fedora and elsewhere (noticed openSUSE, will propose for Mageia 3). > > For openSUSE we're currently doing it in a "lightweight" fashion, > i.e. no movement of directories (until rpm learns do deal with > those) and no big /bin -> /usr/bin symlink. Hmm, you are aware that you reach the biggest compat by just symlinking /bin to /usr/bin? That way all binaries will be available in either path, regardless how things have been packaged in the RPMs. By manually adding these symlinks to all packages you however: a) require all RPMS to be patched individually b) make these RPMs/.spec useless on non-SUSE systems. c) You achieve neither compatibility with Fedora/other Unixes in appearance (i.e. ls -al / will look different), nor in behaviour (i.e. sticking a binary foo in /bin doesn't make it available as /usr/bin/foo, too) Such an approach sounds very confused to me, and makes compat much worse with Fedora and other Unixes than even staying with the status quo ante would. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
