Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 00/21] gen_usr_ldscript: migrate away from a sep-/usr by default

[Alexis Ballier]

On Thursday, March 31, 2016 8:19:52 PM CEST, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 31 Mar 2016 19:00, Alexis Ballier wrote:
>> On Thursday, March 31, 2016 6:07:28 PM CEST, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> On 31 Mar 2016 16:05, Alexis Ballier wrote: ...
>>
>> i dont think anybody expects you to post tree-wide conversion patches to
>> -dev ml :)
>>
>> but i also dont think it is a good idea to leave the toolchain-funcs
>> version around, and if you want to drop it, you'll have to
>> fill bugs to let
>> ppl know, which is probably more work than adding 8 chars to an inherit
>> line that can be automated
>
> sure -- backwards compat won't be dropped until we're confident everyone
> has migrated over


... which introduces a mess to track what has been converted and what not 
while it can be done once and for good

>>> ...
>> not sure if this was phrased as such, but I seem to recall a council
>> decision stating that separate /usr should be made easy to users unless
>> this causes serious issues; thus, no, I don't think that is
>> the behavior we
>> want :) ...
>
> pretty sure the decision was that it's not required to be supported.

lemme look it up for you then:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Council_decisions

systems with separate /usr should be supported. However, users shouldn't be 
constrained from using software which doesn't support that. -- 04/2012 
meeting

The council has voted in favour of a separate /usr being supported
(5 yes, 1 no vote).

>  and
> regardless of that, i don't see the default behavior of being off as being
> contra "easy to use".

but you're right there, it doesn't make it hard to use, just not working 
out of the box, which is already debatable; however, with eudev being the 
default I don't think there is anything preventing it atm with a default 
setup, but i might certainly stand corrected there