William Hubbs wrote:
> Another issue to consider is binaries that want to access things in
> /usr/share/*. If a binary in /{bin,sbin} needs to access something in
> /usr/share/*, you have two choices. move the binary to /usr or move the
> thing it wants to access to / somewhere which would involve creating
> /share. Actually there is another choice, but I don't want to go there.
> That would be writing patches.
>
I'm ignorant of which binaries do that? (It's understood that you might not
have manpages in rescue-mode.) OT, it's odd that nano is in /usr/bin but on
my system at least it only links to /lib64.
We're only discussing the same tools one might need in an initramfs, wherein
they presumably also need to have their linkage checked.
> The best way to solve all cross / - /usr dependencies imo is the /usr
> merge (moving everything from /{bin,sbin,lib*} to the counterparts in
> /usr), which has been discussed pretty extensively on this list, and
> there hasn't been a lot of opposition to it.
>
There's been quite a bit of vocal opposition on the forums[1], and it's
users who've setup their machines in line with Gentoo docs that this is
going to impact. Even the link that was given to Red-Hat discussion about
this a while back, showed opposition to the move from their users.
[1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-914852.html
'It's about as good an idea as putting the entire content of /etc into a
file and calling it "The Registry"
Oh, wait, that's already been done and shown not to work.'
NeddySeagoon - whose experience in system-administration and IT I'll bow to
anyday.
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