On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 02:26:26AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Marco d'Itri <md@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Jul 16, Kay Sievers <kay@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> The conversion of the top-level dirs to symlinks is almost trivial. We > > Except for patching tens of packages which ship the a file with the > > same name in / and /usr. > > Which was ~25 for Fedora, which is: nothing. > > Then it might be ~75 for Debian, and that can still be fixed in one > single day, if wanted to. Then there are things like what we did in gentoo years before I came on board to get around a toolchain bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/4411. Whoever was working on this back then decided that we should move most of the critical shared libraries to /lib or /lib64 and put linker scripts in /usr/lib*. That has to disappear before we can even think about the /usr merge. Also, remember that we are a rolling release distro. We do not have specific gentoo x.x releases; users just go along updating packages. So, I'm not sure how to force the /usr merge and symlink creation to happen on all of our users' systems in one go. William
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