From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 23:03:58 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] system: add options for /bin /sbin and /lib to be symlinks into /usr In-Reply-To: References: <1441324062-31743-1-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <20150904101128.4206779d@free-electrons.com> <55E9540C.9060000@mind.be> <20150904163121.GD4540@free.fr> <8737yg3dt0.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <55F73B74.1020708@mind.be> <87vbbcznmq.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <561596CE.9080502@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 07-10-15 17:19, Mike Williams wrote: > All, > > > However, I'm not really in favour of it. I don't see that it brings > > a lot of benefit, other than reducing the number of symlinks from 3 > > to 1. But it does create /share and /local which looks weird could > > potentially conflict with existing user directories (e.g. a > > mountpoint for windows shares...). Also it makes it more complicated > > for the user to implement a fedora-like mounted /usr. > > Ok - fine, having 1 or 3 symlinks isn't really a big deal. Just symlinking /usr > seemed the simplest possible solution. > > > Any reason this wasn't committed? Just reviewing my list of out-of-tree patches... Because it is a non-trivial change, and we don't have runtime testing to give Peter sufficient trust to just commit it, so he will want to look at the patch in detail before committing. And by now it got snowed under by other patches... So it's good that you push for it ;-). Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7493 020B C7E3 8618 8DEC 222C 82EB F404 F9AC 0DDF