Bug#755472: shotwell: Shotwell can't find .ui files

[Stephan Beyer]

Hi,

On 05/25/2015 08:44 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Sorry, but symlinking /usr is not a good idea and not supported.
> Closing this bug report.

Okay, it looks there is a reason for the (seemingly) weird symlink
behavior, and that reason might be more important than fixing a problem
for people who had a bad idea. (To be honest, I also do not see why it
is a bad idea to symlink /usr ... except that shotwell is not working.)

However, for the handful of people who actually stumble across the same
problem, I want to add that you can (and, depending on the badideaness,
even should) mount to /usr instead of symlinking. The switch is easy:

  rm /usr
  mkdir /usr
  mount -o bind /path/to/usr /usr

(and for a persistent mount, change /etc/fstab accordingly).

Best
  Stephan

-- 
There are no bad ideas. Just bad decisions. -- Jacob Cass