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> > Council decided years ago that we don't support separate /usr without |
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> > an initramfs, but we haven't completed that transition yet. |
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> Which doesn't imply that we deliberately break things. |
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That's right. Though we should at some point start thinking about an end of support for separate usr without initramfs. |
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Why? Because the number of required hacks and complexity will only increase, as will the number of uncooperative upstreams. It's called a strategic retreat. :D |
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My suggestion would be that the next profile version (21? 22?) declares separate /usr a broken configuration, and explicitly encourages devs to introduce all ebuild simplifications that are made possible by this. (Like this symlink - no more conditional code.) No more discussions about "not breaking things" at that point. |
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(Or to put it another way, I think we should stop wasting time and effort here just to be able to live in the past.) |
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Andreas K. Hüttel |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice) |
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