[Buildroot] [PATCH] system: add options for /bin /sbin and /lib to be symlinks into /usr

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Wed Oct 7 22:03:58 UTC 2015


On 07-10-15 17:19, Mike Williams wrote:
> All,
> 
>       >  However, I'm not really in favour of it. I don't see that it brings
>      > a lot of benefit, other than reducing the number of symlinks from 3
>      > to 1. But it does create /share and /local which looks weird could
>      > potentially conflict with existing user directories (e.g. a
>      > mountpoint for windows shares...). Also it makes it more complicated
>      > for the user to implement a fedora-like mounted /usr.
> 
>     Ok - fine, having 1 or 3 symlinks isn't really a big deal. Just symlinking /usr
>     seemed the simplest possible solution.
> 
> 
> Any reason this wasn't committed? Just reviewing my list of out-of-tree patches...

 Because it is a non-trivial change, and we don't have runtime testing to give
Peter sufficient trust to just commit it, so he will want to look at the patch
in detail before committing. And by now it got snowed under by other patches...

 So it's good that you push for it ;-).


 Regards,
 Arnout


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