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From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] system: add options for /bin /sbin and /lib to be symlinks into /usr
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 23:12:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737yg3dt0.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150904163121.GD4540@free.fr> (Yann E. MORIN's message of "Fri,  4 Sep 2015 18:31:21 +0200")

>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> writes:

Hi,

>> I will always turn this option on, even in non-systemd, because it makes for a
 >> better environment. See the Fedora document for a long explanation why split
 >> /usr is just legacy baggage. Other parts of your system will also work better
 >> when this option is turned on - no more confusion between busybox installing
 >> something in /bin and the full package putting it in /usr/bin. No more worries
 >> about a shebang being correct.
 >> 
 >> So no, I don't want this to be hidden.

 > Ditto, I do not want this to be hidden. I want to have the choice of
 > using a merged-usr even without systemd (and I even have a use-case in
 > my head for that).

And as explained, we might even want to default it to y in the future,
just because it is simpler when you have a single rootfs.

Is there any reason why we explicitly add the symlinks for /bin / /sbin
and /lib and don't just do:

ln -sf . usr

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-14 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-03 23:47 [Buildroot] [PATCH] system: add options for /bin /sbin and /lib to be symlinks into /usr Yann E. MORIN
2015-09-04  7:48 ` Vicente Olivert Riera
2015-09-04  8:16   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-04 16:29     ` Yann E. MORIN
2015-09-04 19:05       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-04 16:12   ` Yann E. MORIN
2015-09-04  8:11 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-09-04  8:19   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-04 16:31     ` Yann E. MORIN
2015-09-14 21:12       ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2015-09-14 21:23         ` Yann E. MORIN
2015-09-14 21:26         ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-14 21:39           ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-10-07 16:19             ` Mike Williams
2015-10-07 22:03               ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-14 21:32         ` Thomas Petazzoni
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-09-01 22:55 Yann E. MORIN
2015-09-02  4:54 ` Baruch Siach
2015-09-02  7:10 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-09-02 13:50   ` Mike Williams
2015-09-02 14:04     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-09-02 14:05       ` Mike Williams
2015-09-02 14:28         ` Yann E. MORIN
2015-09-02 14:07       ` Vicente Olivert Riera
2015-09-02 14:11         ` Yann E. MORIN
2015-09-02 14:12         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-09-02 14:13           ` Vicente Olivert Riera
2015-09-02 20:59 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-02 21:17   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-02 22:09     ` Yann E. MORIN
2015-09-03 14:46       ` Mike Williams
2015-09-03 15:12         ` Vicente Olivert Riera
2015-09-03 15:57           ` Yann E. MORIN
2015-09-02 22:07   ` Yann E. MORIN

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