Hi William, On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:57 PM, William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Talk to Dave and Tom (CC'ed) . Archlinux is a rolling distro as welll, and they managed to get it working. Lucas De Marchi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
