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On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote: |
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> I have yet to see any convincing reason to do this other than "RedHat is |
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> doing it". This change will not make Gentoo a better distribution and it |
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> is simply not worth the pain. Some people appear to think that this is |
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> an urgent issue and I doubt anything I say will change their minds. The |
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> main problem that I have is getting them to accept that they are wrong |
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> that urgent action is needed. I firmly believe that we could wait a few |
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> years before doing anything. |
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I don't think anybody else is suggesting doing anything at all in the |
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first place. |
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If we don't do anything, then lots of stuff moves to /usr. I think |
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that is what you're missing. The /usr move basically starts happening |
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on its own automatically if we DON'T do much. This is because |
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upstream is the one pushing it. |
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Few are advocating rushing either - if upstream takes years to make |
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this happen I doubt it will upset many on this list. |
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My sense is the general maintainer sentiment is to go with the flow - |
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they're not going to patch udev/etc to move more stuff into usr, but |
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they're not gong to patch it to move stuff back out either. If you |
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really want to support leaving stuff where it is then you or others |
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need to volunteer to start helping with maintaining these packages, |
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and deal with any mess it creates. |
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Rich |
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