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Auteur: Olaf Meeuwissen
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Aan: KatolaZ
CC: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question??
Hi KatolaZ,

KatolaZ writes:

> On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 04:51:43PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
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>>
>> ACK. Just like to point out that Devuan might run into packages that
>> have already moved programs that really ought to be in /bin or /sbin
>> over to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin.
>>
>> Image bash getting installed in /usr/bin/bash. With the merged /usr
>> scenario that's not a problem because /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin and
>> all you #!/bin/bash scripts will continue to work just fine. In the
>> non-merged scenario /bin/bash will not exist and all hell breaks loose.
>>
>
> Let's solve first the problems that we have now, instead of trying to
> solve the problems that we do not have as yet (and might not ever have
> at all), OK? :)
>
> There is no reason so far for the packagers of basic utilities to
> massively move their stuff under /usr/bin and/or /usr/sbin. So let's
> keep calm and carry on ;)


Sorry to have given a wrong impression but I am perfectly calm and well
aware that bash (and other commonly used basic utilities) likely aren't
going to move to /usr. I just wanted to point out that this move could
happen for somewhat more esoteric packages and that Devuan would then
have a bug on its hands.

I'm perfectly fine with fixing bugs after they've been found ;-)
Let's hope that happens before releasing, though :-)

Hope this clarifies,
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