Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge

[William Hubbs]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:19:48PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote:
> On 07/17/2012 07:02 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > This is basically not relevant since we do not support HURD.
>
> It is relevant because it guarantees that the GNU stuff in @system will
> continue working. That allows us to narrow our focus to the non-GNU
> things required to use Gentoo Linux.
>
> Looking at @system and what it typically pulls into @world, the only
> thing that might cause a problem is udev, although virtual/dev-manager
> is in @system, rather than udev. If that happens, we have a few ways of
> dealing with that:
>
> 1. Patch udev.

I think I can come up with a patch locally that will read rules from
/lib/udev/rules.d if that's what we want to do for now.

> 2. Fork udev.

I don't think this is necessary, and it would create more work for us
than is needed.

> >> Lastly, don't tell me to read systemd's case for why we should break
> >> people's systems. I have read it and I find it flawed. There is
> >> absolutely no need for us to make this change.
> >
> > Without elaboration on why you find their case flawed, this sounds
> > like the typical, "if it isn't broke, don't fix it" argument.
> > While that has merrit, if there are advantages to doing
> >  something, like I think there would be to doing the /usr merge, it may
> >  be worth the transition, especially if we can make it as smooth as
> >  possible.
>
> The cost to benefit ratio is simply too low for "lets change it because
> it could be better this way" to merit making the change. The things that
> I have heard are going to break existing systems that I have gone
> through some trouble to support. I really don't want to see that.

You are still not saying what things you have heard. Your concerns can't
be addressed if you don't tell us what they are.

William