Getting rid of /usr for F12?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Apr 20 15:27:14 UTC 2009


Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mon, 20.04.09 17:03, Frank Schmitt (ich at frank-schmitt.net) wrote:
> 
>> Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> writes:
>>
>>> Nowadays stuff like dbus, glib, libpng, the ALSA libs, ... install in
>>> /. That's what I mean.
>> No, they don't. They install in /usr.
> 
> They do:
> 
> 395 [lennart at omega] ~$ ls /lib64/libdbus* /lib64/libpng* /lib64/libglib* /lib64/libasound* | cat
> /lib64/libasound.so.2@
> /lib64/libasound.so.2.0.0*
> /lib64/libdbus-1.so@
> /lib64/libdbus-1.so.3@
> /lib64/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0*
> /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0@
> /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2000.1*
> /lib64/libpng12.so@
> /lib64/libpng12.so.0@
> /lib64/libpng12.so.0.31.0*
> /lib64/libpng.so@
> /lib64/libpng.so.3@
> /lib64/libpng.so.3.31.0*

They install their "essential run-time libraries" to / but install to 
/usr otherwise.

The libpng stuff contained in your listing, however, looks pretty much 
as a mispackaged package to me.

Ralf




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