On Nov 15, Wookey <[email protected]> wrote: > How is the usrmerge done? bind-mounting? hardlinks? rename(2)
> Is dpkg-shlibdeps the only thing that is going to wrong if files stop
> having a canonical location in the system? It's a pretty major change
> having every library (and a load of binaries?) appear twice? (Or do I
> misunderstand how this is implemented?).
This has been the only significant issue so far.
Red Hat released RHEL7 with a merged /usr and I am not aware of any
troubles.
> Like Guillem, I'd be a lot happier if files, especially libraries,
> only existed in the place they existed, and if we want to move that
> then we should move it in the packaging. Isn't there potential for
> autoconf or libtool to get confused too?
Apparently not.
We will never be able to remove the /{lib*,bin,sbin} symlinks (they are
more or less all requires by ABIs), but sooner or later we should drop
support for non-merged systems and just install everything in /usr.
--
ciao,
Marco
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