On Sun, 5 Jul 2026 08:31:43 +0200, Lorenz wrote in message
<CAOEhTLyWgV4j0KURjCgpAXPrXY=g1Ak_M+uQj0=CiaTa3GKm6A@???>:

> On Sat, Jul 4, 2026 at 7:27 PM Svante Signell via Dng
> <dng@???> wrote:
>
> > >
> > What does your script really do? A wish would be a script logging
> > the number of soft links and files referring to /bin, /sbin etc.
> > Then we could determine how many soft links are really needed for
> > Devuan without usrmerge. And those already implemented by me for
> > GNU/Hurd sid.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> I'm not sure what layout you have in mind for your unmerged system:
> in any case I guess /bin /lib /sbin will be real directories, but
> 1) populate /bin /lib /sbin and so with symlinks to their /usr
> counterpart for a list of binaries (for example from coreutils and
> util-linux) 2) rebuild few essential packages (again coreutils, util
> linux and so) to revert the move to /usr and ship in /bin /sbin, then
> populate /usr/bin and /usr/sbin with symlinks
> 3) some other way I didn't think about
>
> Could you clarify?

..I'll post my offlist response to Svante, here on this list.
And Svante needs to swap around his To: and Cc: mail list
address settings here, that tricked me and my MUA into
believing he wanted an off list response from me.

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