Bug 216727

Summary:	sys-apps/findutils-4.3.13 - 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 15:30:52 UTC

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

Comment 1 Lucian Muresan 2008-04-07 15:31:55 UTC

Created attachment 148997 [details, diff]
ebuild patch

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

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2008-04-07 21:07:22 UTC

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