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

[Emanuel Rietveld]

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?