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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript & --libdir=/lib
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:48:29
Message-Id: 20121227184742.GA28994@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript & --libdir=/lib by Mike Gilbert
1 On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:35:55PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:03 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
3 > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:00:09AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote:
4 > >> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon
5 > >> <chainsaw@g.o> wrote:
6 > >> > On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 22:01 -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
7 > >> >> Actually, since ulm pointed out in another thread that the
8 > >> >> council has not mandated that we support separate /usr without an
9 > >> >> initramfs, I am re-considering this.
10 > >> >
11 > >> > So now that the /usr-merge steamroller can not break systems through
12 > >> > udev, because an alternative now exists... another way must be found?
13 > >> > That seems rather immature.
14 > >> > What must be forked next to keep this working? openrc?
15 > >>
16 > >> Tend to agree, assuming it causes no additional work for package maintainers.
17 > >
18 > > As I and others have said on this list a thousdand times, moving
19 > > everything to /usr never had anything to do with systemd and udev. This
20 > > is a completely separate topic.
21 > >
22 >
23 > It has everything to do with udev if you (as the udev maintainer for
24 > Gentoo) decide to put zero effort into keeping udev working with a
25 > traditional split-/usr configuration. Although udev is only one
26 > package of many, it is a pretty damn critical one.
27
28 As I said on another thread, there was a misunderstanding on my part
29 about setting up udev. I am looking into fixing that with the next
30 release, but I need to coordinate with systemd as well, so I thought it
31 would be good to wait for 197 to be released, so again, this is not
32 correct.
33
34 William