Re: [PATCH] udev: sync udev rules directories with systemd units directories

Hi William,

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:57 PM, William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 02:26:26AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Marco d'Itri <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Jul 16, Kay Sievers <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> The conversion of the top-level dirs to symlinks is almost trivial. We
>> > Except for patching tens of packages which ship the a file with the
>> > same name in / and /usr.
>>
>> Which was ~25 for Fedora, which is: nothing.
>>
>> Then it might be ~75 for Debian, and that can still be fixed in one
>> single day, if wanted to.
>
> Then there are things like what we did in gentoo years before I came on
> board to get around a toolchain bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/4411.
>
> Whoever was working on this back then decided that we should move most
> of the critical shared libraries to /lib or /lib64 and put linker
> scripts in /usr/lib*. That has to disappear before we can even think
> about the /usr merge.
>
> Also, remember that we are a rolling release distro. We do not have
> specific gentoo x.x releases; users just go along updating packages. So,
> I'm not sure how to force the /usr merge and symlink creation to happen
> on all of our users' systems in one go.

Talk to Dave and Tom (CC'ed) . Archlinux is a rolling distro as welll,
and they managed to get it working.


Lucas De Marchi
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