On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:06 AM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 11:40:02AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> I don't think anyone's asked this yet: >> >> Do we NEED to deprecate /bin,/sbin,/usr/sbin,/lib ? I realize that >> udev/kmod/systemd are moving, but there isn't anything in particular >> that would require everything else to move, is there? > > Well, I don't think everything is going to move immediately. The way I > see this happening is, udev/systemd/kmod are moving first, then other > upstreams will move their software. >
>From what I can make out, *only* udev and systemd are making this a hard-and-fast thing so far. kmod has added a configure argument, and no one else has moved yet. In reality, fedora is patching a lot of packages to make them install in /usr. *If* GNU packages decide to move to /usr, *then* we can contemplate moving. Till then, I say let's just do whatever Debian is doing. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
