Re: Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012

On 04/10/2012 07:28 PM, Steven J Long wrote:
> I suppose you could script that, but again, it just seems like a lot of
> bother to implement an "alternative" that doesn't actually gain anything
> over the traditional setup (plus making sure that partitions are mounted
> before udev starts.)

At least in the case of udev, we gain from not having to maintain a fork.

> As for the burden of ensuring that binaries installed to /{s,}bin don't link
> to libs in /usr, why not just automate a QA check for that, and let
> developers decide whether a fix is necessary? After all, core packages that
> do that even when configured with prefix and execprefix = /, aren't so
> portable, and Gentoo has always championed "doing the right thing" wrt
> helping upstream fix portability issues.

If the relevant ebuild developers really want to support that, it's fine
I guess. Hopefully that won't involve using static links as workarounds
for cross-/usr dependencies.
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Thanks,
Zac