Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge

[Raymond Jennings]

May I suggest first moving everything into /usr one at a time, and for each
file moved out of /bin or /sbin or whatever, replace it with a symlink?

This will allow the /bin and /sbin directories themselves to atomically be
replaced with symlinks later.

Doing it all at once will leave a gap.

For each file:

1.  Install it in the new location
2.  Delete the old file and replace it with a symlink


On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:

> On Thursday, April 7, 2016 6:22:16 PM CEST, Rich Freeman wrote:
>
>> Again, I don't see this as a reason not to make it optional, but I
>> suspect that we will find bugs here from time to time which users who
>> run with the split /usr will have to report/fix.
>>
>
>
> Considering the advantages of usr-merge are rather specific IMHO but risks
> during the migration are high, I think you're optimistic on the user base
> of usr-merged systems :)
>
> Heck, it hasn't happened yet because there hasn't been such a big need for
> it.
>
>