[arch-dev-public] Finishing the /usr move

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Wed May 29 04:13:01 EDT 2013


On 29/05/13 17:57, Gaetan Bisson wrote:
> [2013-05-29 11:56:57 +1000] Allan McRae:
>> 1) Fix any non-official packages with files in /bin, /sbin or /usr/sbin
>> to put those files in /usr/bin.
> 
> How should we handle paths that are hardcoded everywhere, such as
> /usr/sbin/sendmail? Will the filesystem package ship a global symlink
> from /usr/sbin to /usr/bin?
> 

Yes - /sbin, /usr/sbin and /bin will all point at /usr/bin.   So
hardcoded paths will not matter.  Only file locations will.

Allan



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