/usr boot time dependencies

[Michael K. Johnson]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:05:07AM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
> - id and uniq are required by init scripts, eg to setup IPv6 in the 
> network init script, and portmap init script requires it too.

That /usr is required to init IPv6 would be a bug.  We tend to
fix this by looking at the whole problem, though -- we don't
automatically move things out of /usr, we think about what
else we can do.  Often, things get re-written as awk scripts
to avoid growing /bin or /sbin.

> - portmap resides in /bin but links to libwrap.so - which is in 
> /usr/lib and may not be available.

Again, a bug one way or another.

michaelkjohnson

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