20 Nov
2012
20 Nov
'12
6:27 p.m.
On Tuesday 20 November 2012 03:25:56 Jon Masters wrote:
The only reason for making a change at this time appears to be cosmetic, for removing /lib for example. I can understand that, and if we were discussing this a year ago (or even months ago when I first raised it on this list), then it might be a reasonable change, but at this time I cannot find an overwhelming technical justification.
i don't think removal of /lib/ is really feasible. that's the path that gets used for firmware (/lib/firmware/) and kernel modules (/lib/modules/<kver>/) regardless of the default ABI on the system.
similarly, userspace packages are using that path for supplemental files like the bootloader (grub) or ABI-independent settings (udev rules). -mike