Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2012-11-14 02:39, David Haller wrote:
You need initrd- If you do not want to use it, then you will need to hack your own solution. WHY?
Because that's the solution the devs here implemented, that's why. If you want a different solution you will have to make a very sound case to convince them (and a year after!) or implement it yourself.
Otherwise it is not going to change.
And I'm not saying I like it.
Are you saying if I submit a patch moving them back, then because I would be a dev, it would be accepted, and it would then be fixed? I.e. No one has explained why the base binaries (bin/cp, for example), cannot reside in "/bin", and, if needed /usr/bin has a symlink /bin. This would have been a much easier solution to implement than moving all of the files in the first place. I would like to know why that won't work? I listed the files affected...in what packages 26 packages -- ALL low-level console packages in bin+/sbin and 10 in /usr/lib64 that were referenced by those binaries. That would be fairly trivial to move back. Looking at some of the packages (coreutils/util-linux) -- it would be a matter of deleting patches suse put in to go AGAINST upstream defaults (contrary to what someone said earlier on this list). Also, the patch for making mount use liblkid is dated on Jun 2012 -- not a year ago. The one in core utils was dated in Feb2012.. about 6-7 months ago. I am seeing the engineering quality and decisions decline in this distro -- like the senior people have left and decisions are being made by those without alot of industry experience (<20 years)... Just a feel, but if Suse keeps going this route, it will be near dead in about 3-5 years. I note it's declined from the #2 to the #5 spot over the past few years, and down to #6 in the past 30 days since 12.2 was released -- usually a time when usage pops up due to a new version being tried out. I even see the comment for core utils - to move them all to /usr/bin reason give: some UsrMerge project. That points various places via google... None of which answer the base quetion.. If you want to merge /usr/bin and /bin, Why did you go for the incompatible route of using a different subpath? Why wasn't /usr/bin,lib/...} -> merged to /bin /lib, /usr... ? If / and /usr are separate file systems, then putting things in / and having links in /usr won't hurt boot, but doing the opposite does. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org