Getting rid of /usr for F12?

[Callum Lerwick]

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 21:41 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 01:24 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
> > I don't think the switch would be that complicated. The packagers
> > could change --prefix=/usr to --prefix=/ in the spec files whenever
> > they want. And when the last package is updated accordingly and a bit
> > of time passed and /usr is empty it could be replaced by a symlink.
> 
> oh, yes, because EVERYTHING builds with autotools. *sigh*

Any build system that doesn't provide the same configurability as
autotools is braindead and broken. And is likely already having to be
patched to hell and back to build into an RPM anyway.
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