Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks vs a-different-layout

2019-02-24 Thread Sam Hartman
First, I hear your frustration. I suspect that our current path is going to lead to a fair bit of pain, sufficient even that I expect us to make some changes after the release of buster. Swallowing that will be hard, but I tend to think we're being somewhat narrow in which requirements are

Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks vs a-different-layout

2019-02-24 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 09:23:14 -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Guillem" == Guillem Jover writes: > Guillem> On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 08:27:20 +0100, Ansgar wrote: > >> Guillem Jover writes: > You are still conflating the concept with > >> the deployment. The > underlaying properties

Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks vs a-different-layout

2019-02-24 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Guillem" == Guillem Jover writes: Guillem> On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 08:27:20 +0100, Ansgar wrote: >> Guillem Jover writes: > You are still conflating the concept with >> the deployment. The > underlaying properties of merging /usr is >> that the contents for > directories

Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks vs a-different-layout

2019-02-24 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 08:27:20 +0100, Ansgar wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > You are still conflating the concept with the deployment. The > > underlaying properties of merging /usr is that the contents for > > directories that are present in both / and /usr get merged into > > /usr. > > No,

Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks vs a-different-layout

2019-02-23 Thread Ansgar
Guillem Jover writes: > On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 08:54:12 +0100, Ansgar wrote: >> Guillem Jover writes: >> > 3) Switching packages to the merged-/usr layout could have been >> >accomplished automatically via debhelper for a coverage of around >> >99% (?) of the archive. With something along

Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks vs a-different-layout

2019-02-23 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 08:54:12 +0100, Ansgar wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > 3) Switching packages to the merged-/usr layout could have been > >accomplished automatically via debhelper for a coverage of around > >99% (?) of the archive. With something along the lines of: > > > >

Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks vs a-different-layout

2019-02-19 Thread Ansgar
Guillem Jover writes: > 3) Switching packages to the merged-/usr layout could have been >accomplished automatically via debhelper for a coverage of around >99% (?) of the archive. With something along the lines of: > > ,--- > D=debian/tmp > for d in /bin /sbin /lib; do >