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On 31 Mar 2016 10:12, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> > To make forward progress on bug 417451, introduce a new sep-usr eclass |
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> > that will hold all logic related to having a separate /usr. For now, |
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> > this is just the gen_usr_ldscript function and a new USE=sep-usr flag. |
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> Seems like a decent idea. |
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> Before this flag gets added, should we define some bounds? I just |
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> don't want to see this flag get abused by using it to move other files |
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> around randomly, like moving things from /bin to /usr/bin, etc. |
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i think we can scope it currently for libs (and any data files they need), |
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but i don't see it being a bad thing to leverage it for /bin progs. |
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> > All ebuilds that call gen_usr_ldscript today will migrate to this and |
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> > will allow people to move away from installing things into /. For the |
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> > systems that want to have a split-/usr partition, they can turn on this |
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> > USE flag across their system. |
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> So the sep-usr flag will be disabled by default? That's going to |
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> trigger a change from the current state, and will definitely need to |
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> be announced. |
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correct. i can put together a news item. |
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-mike |
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