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#1 2011-11-01 13:10:37

rekado
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Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

I just read this mail on the fedora list regaring the proposal to merge the different directories for binaries:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/piperma … 58845.html

It does seem like a practice from times long gone.
What is your take on this? Wouldn't this be something in the spirit of Arch, too?

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#2 2011-11-01 14:22:43

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#3 2011-11-01 14:30:56

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

karol wrote:

Ha!

(Actually, I really like static linking for its simplicity.)

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#4 2011-11-03 03:23:03

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#5 2011-11-03 03:56:36

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

Can't open. But for what i've read on other places it's a good change.

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#6 2011-11-03 05:16:15

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

I like the Idea, I saw that another distro took it a step further (http://gobolinux.org/?page=at_a_glance), how hard would be for me (average Ubuntu target user) to do what gobolinux is doing on my Arch installations?

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#7 2011-11-03 07:02:26

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

lunamystry wrote:

how hard would be for me (average Ubuntu target user) to do what gobolinux is doing on my Arch installations?

Very hard (assuming you're really as you describe yourself to be). Its not a copy-paste job.


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#8 2011-11-03 07:32:06

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

lunamystry wrote:

I like the Idea, I saw that another distro took it a step further (http://gobolinux.org/?page=at_a_glance), how hard would be for me (average Ubuntu target user) to do what gobolinux is doing on my Arch installations?

Not unachievable, but completely unmaintainable in the long run.


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#9 2011-11-03 08:14:49

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This may sounds good for mobile and embeded devices, but for anything other than that will be a mistake.


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#10 2011-11-03 14:20:35

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

Mods: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129464 . Should this be merged?

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#11 2011-11-03 14:44:25

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

When I first saw this, I wondered why they did not follow Hurd and just abandon /usr (with the addition of merging /bin and /sbin).   But the explanation given seems reasonable...

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#12 2011-11-03 15:13:41

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

mod action: I've merged Grinch's thread with Rekado's thread. Original title for Grinch's thread: "Fedora to simplify filesystem hierarchy". Rekado's thread used to be in Arch Discussion. I've added Fedora to the title. Original was "Merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin?"


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#13 2011-11-03 21:40:14

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

rekado wrote:

I just read this mail on the fedora list regaring the proposal to merge the different directories for binaries:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/piperma … 58845.html

It does seem like a practice from times long gone.
What is your take on this? Wouldn't this be something in the spirit of Arch, too?

Was that due in F16, or just a prospect?

This could be possible for F17 since those people usually work fast, but for arch I expect a very slow transition because this will breab almost every package... Also, some of the reasoning includes cross-distro compatibility, which implies a new FHS, no?


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#14 2011-11-03 21:51:50

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

I like the idea of binning dynamic linking as much as possible.  Been bitten too much by libs issues that I'm coming to hate dynamic and very much lean towards static.  There is a lot of stuff in any *nix system that been done because, well, thats what has always been done.  I do think its time to question whether the original reason is valid anymore.

Be interesting to see how this goes.

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#15 2011-12-05 13:45:23

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

Fedora's filesystem restructuring: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/ … 89851.html

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#16 2011-12-21 20:00:50

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

Is this possible to do in an existing Archlinux (x86_64 with multilib) system? Something like using Parted Magic to copy files from /bin , /sbin , /lib to /usr/bin , /usr/sbin , /usr/lib respectively and creating the symlinks.

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#17 2011-12-22 20:32:48

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

Not sure why you'd want to, it just sounds like busywork to me.


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#18 2012-01-27 00:50:02

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

if you dont know what i am reading now, read http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwar … heUsrMerge

this seems to tidy up the root dir, so we dont have to look around in the filesystem to find the binary files.
this also seems easy to implement too. just symlink the dir for compatibility.

what do you think?

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#19 2012-01-27 02:02:12

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

mod action: Merged in taylorchu's post titled "plan to merge some dirs to /usr" from Arch Discussion.


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#20 2012-01-27 14:38:17

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

I came across this interesting proposal and was interested how the Archlinux community feels about this:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge wrote:

[...]

  • Improved compatibility with other Unixes/Linuxes in behaviour: After the /usr merge all binaries become available in both /bin and /usr/bin, resp. both /sbin and /usr/sbin (simply because /bin becomes a symlink to /usr/bin, resp. /sbin to /usr/sbin). That means scripts/programs written for other Unixes or other Linuxes and ported to your distribution will no longer need fixing for the file system paths of the binaries called, which is otherwise a major source of frustration. /usr/bin and /bin (resp. /usr/sbin and /sbin) become entirely equivalent.

  • Improved compatibility with other Unixes (in particular Solaris) in appearance: The primary commercial Unix implementation is nowadays Oracle Solaris. Solaris has already completed the same /usr merge in Solaris 11. By making the same change in Linux we minimize the difference towards the primary Unix implementation, thus easing portability from Solaris.

  • Improved compatibility with GNU build systems: The biggest part of Linux software is built with GNU autoconf/automake (i.e. GNU autotools), which are unaware of the Linux-specific /usr split. Maintaining the /usr split requires non-trivial project-specific handling in the upstream build system, and in your distribution's packages. With the /usr merge, this work becomes unnecessary and porting packages to Linux becomes simpler.

  • Improved compatibility with current upstream development: In order to minimize the delta from your Linux distribution to upstream development the /usr merge is key.

[...]

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#21 2012-01-27 14:53:05

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#22 2012-01-27 15:45:09

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

Merging to the on-going thread. Please search before posting.


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#23 2012-01-27 15:59:39

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

ngoonee wrote:

Merging to the on-going thread. Please search before posting.

Offtopic: the 30s waiting period between searches made me stop after 2 attempts. But thanks for merging

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#24 2012-01-27 16:00:38

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

Spider.007 wrote:
ngoonee wrote:

Merging to the on-going thread. Please search before posting.

Offtopic: the 30s waiting period between searches made me stop after 2 attempts. But thanks for merging

Use Google.

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#25 2012-01-30 00:29:08

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Re: Fedora merging /usr/bin with /sbin and /bin

merginbg /bin and /sbin into /usr and make symlinks
....trow busybox and trow live-cd

BAD idea...break my sistem and make unable to mount (first try) and/or make unable to initscripts to...init-ialize (second try)

I ask: ...devs-arch have pans to merge those directories too? (LONGS plans....RESLY longs plans (Sun 20-years plan, Fedora 6-months plan)
or axist any ticket or request of this???


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