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On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> To make forward progress on bug 417451, introduce a new sep-usr eclass |
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> that will hold all logic related to having a separate /usr. For now, |
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> this is just the gen_usr_ldscript function and a new USE=sep-usr flag. |
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Seems like a decent idea. |
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Before this flag gets added, should we define some bounds? I just |
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don't want to see this flag get abused by using it to move other files |
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around randomly, like moving things from /bin to /usr/bin, etc. |
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> All ebuilds that call gen_usr_ldscript today will migrate to this and |
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> will allow people to move away from installing things into /. For the |
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> systems that want to have a split-/usr partition, they can turn on this |
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> USE flag across their system. |
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So the sep-usr flag will be disabled by default? That's going to |
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trigger a change from the current state, and will definitely need to |
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be announced. |
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