Getting rid of /usr for F12?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Apr 17 23:15:09 UTC 2009


Chris Adams wrote:
> Aside from any "religious" debate, there's a practical problem: last
> time anything like this was tried, rpm couldn't handle moving
> directories to symlinks.  That's why init.d is still under /etc/rc.d
> instead of just /etc (and /etc/init.d is a symlink).

This can be hacked around with some fragile %pretrans hackery. That said, I
don't think that'd be feasible for such a radical change (affecting nearly
all packages), it'd have to be done by some special-case code (which is a
strong argument not to do it).

        Kevin Kofler




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