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

[Martin Langhoff]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> wrote:
> Fedora 17 will locate the entire base operating system in /usr. The directories
> /bin, /sbin, /lib, /lib64 will only be symlinks:
>  /bin → /usr/bin

Interesting!

Do we need to teach rpm / yum about the equivalence, when resolving
dependencies?

For a trivial example -- if package A depends on /bin/foo, will yum &
rpm be satisfied with /usr/bin/foo?

cheers,



m
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