Bug 216726

Summary:	sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.7-r2 - binaries needed in /bin when /usr/bin not yet accessible
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Lucian Muresan <lucianm>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	216716
Attachments:	ebuild patch

Description Lucian Muresan 2008-04-07 15:24:33 UTC

Sometimes 'diff' is needed to be installed in /bin when
/usr/bin is not yet accessible (like in sys-apps/hprofile). Had to patch the ebuild (with optional USE flag, patch following). BTW, is it worth not keeping this binaries in /bin?

Comment 1 Lucian Muresan 2008-04-07 15:27:22 UTC

Created attachment 148995 [details, diff]
ebuild patch

optionally (by USE flag "rootfs" installs binaries into /(s)bin instead of /usr/(s)bin

Comment 2 Martin Aspeli 2008-04-07 15:35:29 UTC

I no longer maintain hprofile (or use Linux) so I'm unable to help any further.
Sorry.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2008-04-07 21:08:49 UTC

i'm not interested in shuffling a lot of binaries from /usr to / just to
satisfy a random package