Next flame war, please...

Posted Feb 24, 2014 22:18 UTC (Mon) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
Parent article: Debian TC vote on init system coupling

OK, I'm officially bored with systemd march on Debian. How about something new. Like... Converting Debian packaging to RPM? That is bound to generate some good flame wars! ;-)

Next feature to import

Posted Feb 24, 2014 23:25 UTC (Mon) by bluss (guest, #47454) [Link] (5 responses)

Next feature to import from Fedora could be the "UsrMove": merging /bin with /usr/bin etc. I'd like to see that.

Why stop there?

Posted Feb 25, 2014 1:37 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link] (4 responses)

While at it, they can also rename /lib32 to /lib and /lib to /lib64. ;-)

Why stop there?

Posted Feb 25, 2014 2:18 UTC (Tue) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

Debian solved that problem a long time ago. 32 bit x86 libraries live in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu, 64 bit ones in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu.

Why stop there?

Posted Feb 25, 2014 2:19 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (2 responses)

Debian already solved this with multiarch (e.g., lib/amd64 or something, probably the ABI triplet).

Once you get /usr/bin and /bin merged, let's get /usr/bin and /usr/sbin merged :D .

Why stop there?

Posted Feb 25, 2014 7:46 UTC (Tue) by mbunkus (subscriber, #87248) [Link] (1 responses)

This is not so uncommon anymore. On my Arch they've been merged last year:

[0 mbunkus@chai-latte ~] ls -ld /{s,}bin /usr/{s,}bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 31. Mai 2013 /bin -> usr/bin/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 31. Mai 2013 /sbin -> usr/bin/
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 81396 21. Feb 15:53 /usr/bin/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 31. Mai 2013 /usr/sbin -> bin/

Why stop there?

Posted Feb 25, 2014 8:11 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Yeah, I would have guessed someone had done it; may as well be Arch. I run Rawhide and some of the stuff Arch does scares me (Python3 as default…).