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On Wednesday, April 6, 2016 5:52:52 PM CEST, Richard Yao wrote: |
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> The original purpose of the /usr merge in Solaris was to make managing |
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> updates easier. Redhat realized that and copied it. Copying it too |
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> without doing the enabling work necessary for a rolling distribution |
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> would be setting a trap for users who would think that they can manage |
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> deployments of Gentoo like they can manage deployments Solaris and/or RHEL. |
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You're tying the whole thing too much to solaris/rh ways. The benefits for |
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us are far less than for them and managing updates via everything in /usr |
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is certainly out of scope of the current proposal. |
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