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

[Bill Nottingham]

Martin Langhoff (martin.langhoff at gmail.com) said: 
> 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?

Assuming /bin -> /usr/bin link is packaged, yes.

Bill