On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 09:20:38PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 13:46:06 -0500 > William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > we just got the following bug report for openrc today [1]. > > > > On a gentoo 64 bit system, /lib is a symbolic link to /lib64, and this > > causes breakage in openrc. > > > > The simplest fix for this would be for us to add /libexec to > > baselayout and start using it for platform-agnostic code. We > > have /usr/libexec, so I don't know why we don't have /libexec. Should > > we? > > We don't have it because we usually don't want to introduce additional > directories in rootfs. Honestly, I'd rather see all stuff go to /usr > than introducing /libexec.
openrc cannot be installed in /usr, because it is used to boot the system. Also remember that openrc is not used on linux systems only, so we can't blindly assume that everyone would be fine with us moving it to /usr. William
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