On Wednesday 26 December 2012 23:01:46 William Hubbs wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:48:23PM +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > > On 24/12/2012 20:08, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > i.e. saying "we should get rid of gen_usr_ldscript and use > > > --libdir=/lib" makes absolutely no sense. it's just begging for > > > people to screw things up constantly and waste developer time for 0 > > > gain. > > > > Amen. > > Actually, since ulm pointed out in another thread that the > council has not mandated that we support separate /usr without an > initramfs, I am re-considering this. > > In linux-only ebuilds, if we install everything in /usr as gregkh and > others have suggested, we can remove this call from them. Also, for the > other ebuilds that have this call, we can eventually disable the > function on Linux systems.
as mentioned in bug 417451, the ebuilds won't drop the `gen_usr_ldscript` call. we'll update the gen_usr_ldscript itself to be a no-op. that way non- linux systems continue to work, as well as linux users who want to live in the past. on the upside, i will no longer have compassion for keeping / small, so we can close all the existing bugs about "pkg foo in / is linked against lib bar in /usr" by dumping these calls. or maybe we symlink /usr/lib to /lib ? :) -mike
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