Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge

[Raymond Jennings]

Personally I think that merging things into /usr is a major policy decision
that is likely to contravene upstream installation locations.  I wouldn't
do it lightly, if at all.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 2:32 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote:
> > In the spirit of hearing arguments for/against .. could someone with the
> > appropriate 'fu' throw up a quick survey for those on this ML (and/or
> > possibly the g-users?) to indicate a preference for a change to a
> > flattened-/usr system?
> >
> > I did think re: the eudev "debate" that it was really hard to quantify
> > the opinion for and against a change, and take it away from the  vocal
> > people that obviously feel passionately about their cause :) .
> >
>
> By all means do so, but we can probably save the trouble and assume
> that 95% of the respondents would prefer things remain as they are,
> and probably 80% would suggest that Gentoo should fully support
> systems without /usr mounted during early boot.
>
> Gentoo has become a fairly conservative distro, even more so when
> everybody else dropped support for not running systemd.
>
> I personally think the /usr merge is a cleaner approach (and I'd go a
> step further and merge sbin and bin), but it was rightly said that
> many of the benefits of a merge only come when you do a lot of other
> things as well.  Of course, we could go ahead and do those things
> later.
>
> I think the main immediate benefit of a usr merge is that it actually
> reduces the risk of shebangs and such pointing to the wrong place (due
> to compat links, and there only being one right place in general), and
> it greatly consolidates the static stuff on the filesystem.
>
> --
> Rich
>
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