[Buildroot] [PATCH 01/13] system: reword merged-usr prompt

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at rnout.be
Sat May 17 10:07:09 UTC 2025



On 14/05/2025 18:58, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> The current pro;pt is overly verbose, and departs from the usual
> terminology used to refer to merged /usr, which, 10 years later [0],
> makes it a little bit difficult to find or understand.
> 
> Furthermore, we're going to add another similar prompt for merged
> /usr/sbin, and there's no way we want to introduce as similarly
> convoluted prompt then.
> 
> Reword the prompt for the merged /usr option to the explicit "merged
> /usr" everyone expects and understands.
> 
> [0] see commit c5bd8af65e50 (system: add options for /bin /sbin and
> /lib to be symlinks into /usr)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>

Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>

> ---
>   system/Config.in | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/system/Config.in b/system/Config.in
> index 8ff6c7213e..f747fdbc56 100644
> --- a/system/Config.in
> +++ b/system/Config.in
> @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ config BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_TABLE_SUPPORTS_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES
>   	  Support extended attributes handling in device tables
>   
>   config BR2_ROOTFS_MERGED_USR
> -	bool "Use symlinks to /usr for /bin, /sbin and /lib"
> +	bool "Merged /usr"
>   	help
>   	  If you say 'n' here, then /bin, /sbin and /lib and their
>   	  counterparts in /usr will be separate directories. This



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