[arch-dev-public] Merging the "bin" directories

[Tom Gundersen]

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Am 12.05.2013 07:22, schrieb Allan McRae:
>> I have created a TODO list with all packages that have files in /bin,
>> /sbin or /usr/sbin.  As the list is fairly long, the first pass will be
>> to adjust as many packages as possible to install their files in
>> /usr/bin instead.  Some packages clearly can not have that done and will
>> have to wait until we are prepared to replace those directories with
>> symlinks.
>
> List of showstoppers:
>
> - Shells (with hardcoded paths in users' passwd)
> - fsck helpers (all hardcoded to be in /sbin)

All mount and fsck helpers should be ok to move to /usr/bin. At least
from mount and fsck's point of view, did you have something else in
mind?.

-t