On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 06:41:26PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > In any case, it sounds like for now some devs are continuing to adjust > ebuilds to keep a separate /usr working as well as possible, though it > apparently breaks in some edge cases right now without an initramfs, > as you've already noted in your email. > > I don't think anybody in Gentoo is really pushing for a /usr merge - > there are just lots of devs saying that they aren't going to spend a > lot of time stopping it either. If upstream sticks files needed to > boot in /usr then it is basically up to somebody who cares to do > something to move them. Right now that isn't a lot of work, but the > reason people are concerned is that this is likely to change. Right, I'm definitely not advocating a full out /usr merge tomorrow or anything, I am just not interested in doing a whole lot of patching to keep something from moving to /usr if upstream moves it there.
Also, I am interested in looking at what is installed in /, and if upstream defaults put it in /usr, allowing it to happen on gentoo that way as well. My thought is that eventually we will have more and more things that are being installed in /usr. > If somebody really is pushing for an all-out /usr move by all means > speak up, but I think that basically what everybody is advocating is > trying to follow upstream for individual packages. Right, that's the issue. Some upstreams (mainly udev) have dropped backward compatibility. But, I will be able to get around those for a while. William
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