On 10/27/2011 11:00 AM, Harald Hoyer wrote:
On 10/26/2011 09:05 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 15:40 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> On 10/24/2011 08:05 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
>>>> ===================================
>>>> #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2011-10-24)
>>>> ===================================
>>>> * Discussion about
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove
>>>> (t8m, 17:26:45)
>>>
>>
>>
>> Sometimes you have to clean up your room and tidy up the mess, which
>> piled up over time. This cleanup can be done on one day and checked in
>> by one person. It's not rocket science! It does not break anything,
>> because the compat symlinks will _not_ go away.
>
> Every time someone says this, something winds up breaking anyway,
> because of some kind of oddness like situations where the symlinks
> aren't read or become recursive, or selinux issues (always a fun one)!
I am running my F16 system with all these symlinks now for quiet a
while. Despite the consolehelper symlinks, I have not encountered any
problem. Even rpm updates seem to work fine. But I agree, the devil is
in the detail, and we surely will find something, which does not work.
But I don't think, these problems are severe and not easily fixable.
If you already have a system running that way how about if you put
together a document how to do this and let other people or even Fedora
QA test it out and run it through their testsuits?
That way we'd have a lot more eyes on it, could spot issues with it much
faster and could get the whole idea a solid ground before it's widely
introduced to Fedora and everything would already have been prepared for
it, avoiding exactly those possibly missed oddball or exotic scenarios.
Just my $0.02 after seeing you eating your own dogfood first (eeeewwww,
grosss! ;))).
Thanks & regards, Phil
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