Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

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On 02/01/2012 09:41 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Emanuel Rietveld <codehotter at gmail.com> said:
>> On 02/01/2012 01:32 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>> To-be-installed files obviously have no on-disk fingerprints, so it 
>>> wont work for initial installation. So yes, those "fake" compatibility 
>>> provides are needed. Strictly speaking, compatibility provides would 
>>> be needed for ALL the moved files, not just /bin, as it's technically 
>>> perfectly legal for a package to depend on an arbitrary path in 
>>> /lib[64], not just /[s]bin.
>>>
>>>    - Panu -
>>
>> Would it be possible to leave out these provides and fix each individual 
>> package to require in the new path instead?
> 
> It isn't practical to "fix" every package that requires /bin/sh.
> 
> There sure seems to be a lot of uncertainty for a "feature" that is
> supposedly ready to land.

 Just asking - does a bind mount of /bin instead of a soft link help?