Getting rid of /usr for F12?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Apr 20 15:55:40 UTC 2009


Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mon, 20.04.09 17:27, Ralf Corsepius (rc040203 at freenet.de) wrote:
> 
>> They install their "essential run-time libraries" to / but install to  
>> /usr otherwise.
>>
>> The libpng stuff contained in your listing, however, looks pretty much  
>> as a mispackaged package to me.
> 
> No, they are not mispackaged. They all are needed during early bootup.

These are bugs:
...
/lib64/libpng12.so@
...
/lib64/libpng.so@


These are develfiles and belong into /usr/lib64 as well as they must not 
be required at bootup.

> It's all due to the pointless separation of / and /usr.
No, these are packaging bugs, likely being introduced by 
under-experienced packages.

Ralf




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