On 08/04/16 02:42, William Hubbs wrote: > 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 > I would expect this isn't the only example of this in Gentoo .. we customise the packages to make sense to the Gentoo distro, not conform to a multitude of random "standards" applied by many developers. So, whilst I accept that its desirable to match 'upstream' - this isn't always going to be possible.
I would also re-iterate, as I'm sure you're aware .. there ARE differences between sbin and bin .. unless of course you spend all your time in a Rooted VM where it doesn't matter if you accidentally trash your system. Some of us maintain a sensible user/superuser distinction for a variety of reasons, and simplifying your filesystem to suit some particular package style doesn't really sound like good reasoning for causing a lot of headaches for maintainers and a distro overall. *puts the paint can down*
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