On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 07:43:01PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Having a symbolic link for `/usr' that points to `.' has again and again > proven to be not really suitable for the Debian GNU/Hurd operating system > -- simply for the reason that this isn't what Debian GNU/Linux is doing, > which is where 99,9 % of all Debian packages are maintained, I guess, and > we Hurd people don't have the resources to fix those where it breaks. > > The `crosshurd' installation method already allows choosing between > having a real `/usr' directory or having the symlink, but the CD > installation method does not. > > Philip, can you change the CD scripts to not create the ``/usr -> .'' > symbolic link? For simplicity I'd suggest to do it that way instead of > making it configurable at installation time, which could also be done, of > course.
I think that would be a good change. Maybe it would be possible to figure out a way a /usr->. can still be achieved, e.g. by documenting how and when exactly to switch to a console during the installation in order to create the symlink. > And: congratulations as well from my side for the K14 release. I didn't > need it so far, as there was so far no reason to re-install my box, but > the day will come, I guess... ;-) Indeed, I only heard good comments about it so far. cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
