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On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 2:32 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote: |
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> In the spirit of hearing arguments for/against .. could someone with the |
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> appropriate 'fu' throw up a quick survey for those on this ML (and/or |
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> possibly the g-users?) to indicate a preference for a change to a |
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> flattened-/usr system? |
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> I did think re: the eudev "debate" that it was really hard to quantify |
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> the opinion for and against a change, and take it away from the vocal |
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> people that obviously feel passionately about their cause :) . |
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By all means do so, but we can probably save the trouble and assume |
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that 95% of the respondents would prefer things remain as they are, |
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and probably 80% would suggest that Gentoo should fully support |
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systems without /usr mounted during early boot. |
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Gentoo has become a fairly conservative distro, even more so when |
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everybody else dropped support for not running systemd. |
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I personally think the /usr merge is a cleaner approach (and I'd go a |
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step further and merge sbin and bin), but it was rightly said that |
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many of the benefits of a merge only come when you do a lot of other |
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things as well. Of course, we could go ahead and do those things |
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later. |
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I think the main immediate benefit of a usr merge is that it actually |
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reduces the risk of shebangs and such pointing to the wrong place (due |
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to compat links, and there only being one right place in general), and |
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it greatly consolidates the static stuff on the filesystem. |
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