Re: Proposal: Rethink Fedora multilib support (Take Two!)

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Saleem Abdulrasool wrote:
>> First, we accepted the /usr-merge (for simplicity and since most Linux
>> distributions were doing so) -- not doing so would require two parallel
>> trees, but would not prohibit the same approach.  The next thing was to
>> introduce a "namespace" within the filesystem layout.  The root became
>> `/usr/<target>`.
>
> So this is the "everything is a sysroot" approach also suggested elsewhere
> in this thread.
>
>> The differences from FHS are pretty small
>
> This is not true. Your directory layout is completely incompatible with the
> FHS. Every single directory is not where it is supposed to be according to
> the FHS.
>

The sysroot approach could still work in an "FHS-compatible" way by
symlinking everything back. FHS permits symlinks to represent a
traditional tree in non-traditional structures.



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