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From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Abstractions
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 20:19:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfqEbDCh_TA0sCp7URC6wC73SwSefEKqQSriePZy-RkNPg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YDRtbmWYa0SsSOVn@mit.edu>

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On Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 7:50 PM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 07:38:21PM -0500, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, Wesley Parish wrote:
> >
> > > I've just checked Slackware 14.* and it's still got a few binaries in
> > > /bin, unlike the RedHat* group which has indeed sent them all to
> > > /usr/bin. I don't know about the Debian* group, or if the Mandrake*
> > > group have gone with the RedHat* or not. Let alone all the other
> > > distros.
> >
> > Debian links /bin to /usr/bin.
>
> New installs of Debian will use a /usr merged configuration.  However,
> for pre-existing installations, we are not yet forcing, or even
> strongly recommending, system administrators to install the usrmerge
> package which will transition an legacy directory hierarchy to be /usr
> merged.  So at the moment, Debian packages need to support both merged
> and non-merged configurations, which is not ideal
>

I anticipate needing a /usr/bin/bash soon on my FreeBSD system for the same
reason I have a /bin/bash pointing at /usr/local/bin/bash. Progress :)

Warner

>

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-23  3:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-20 23:09 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-02-21  8:15 ` Otto Moerbeek
2021-02-21 11:08 ` Rich Morin
2021-02-21 22:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-21 23:01   ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-23  3:31     ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-23 17:29       ` [TUHS] /usr separation (was: Abstractions) Greg A. Woods
2021-02-23 18:28         ` [TUHS] /usr separation Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-02-23 18:57           ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-23 20:29             ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-02-24 14:14               ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-24 17:50                 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-02-24 18:37                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-24 18:48                     ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-02-25  3:38                       ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-24 20:25                     ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-24 22:08                       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-02-24  3:12         ` [TUHS] /usr separation (was: Abstractions) Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-22  0:13   ` [TUHS] Abstractions Warren Toomey
2021-02-27  2:47     ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-23  0:25   ` Wesley Parish
2021-02-23  0:38     ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-23  2:50       ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-23  3:19         ` Warner Losh [this message]
2021-02-23  1:47     ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-21 22:54 ` Clem Cole
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-02-24  4:18 Rudi Blom
2021-02-23 19:37 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-02-23 21:02 ` Charles H. Sauer
2021-02-23 21:15   ` Henry Bent
2021-02-24  2:47     ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-24  3:20       ` Warner Losh
2021-02-24 20:05         ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-24  1:51 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-24  2:23   ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-02-21 10:47 Paul Ruizendaal
2021-02-15 19:56 Jon Steinhart
2021-02-15 21:52 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-16  7:13   ` arnold
2021-02-16  8:15 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2021-02-16 10:04   ` Wesley Parish
2021-02-16 19:59   ` Jon Steinhart
2021-02-17  4:01     ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-17  6:50     ` Chris Hanson
2021-02-16 12:26 ` Rich Morin
2021-02-16 22:46 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-02-17 12:09 ` David Arnold

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