On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 08:39:07PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 01:18:01PM -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote: > > Personally I think that merging things into /usr is a major policy decision > > that is likely to contravene upstream installation locations. I wouldn't > > do it lightly, if at all. > > Actually, there are upstreams that already do this, and we are the ones > that move things around. > > Specifically, one example is coreutils. The ebuild installs everything > in /usr/bin, then we move all of the binaries around.
There was a bypo here. "the ebuild" should be upstream. The default installation location of all coreutils binaries is /usr/bin, then we move everything around in the ebuild. We are deviating from upstream in this example. William
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