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On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 06:41:26PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> In any case, it sounds like for now some devs are continuing to adjust |
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> ebuilds to keep a separate /usr working as well as possible, though it |
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> apparently breaks in some edge cases right now without an initramfs, |
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> as you've already noted in your email. |
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> I don't think anybody in Gentoo is really pushing for a /usr merge - |
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> there are just lots of devs saying that they aren't going to spend a |
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> lot of time stopping it either. If upstream sticks files needed to |
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> boot in /usr then it is basically up to somebody who cares to do |
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> something to move them. Right now that isn't a lot of work, but the |
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> reason people are concerned is that this is likely to change. |
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Right, I'm definitely not advocating a full out /usr merge tomorrow or |
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anything, I am just not interested in doing a whole lot of patching to |
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keep something from moving to /usr if upstream moves it there. |
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Also, I am interested in looking at what is installed in /, and if |
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upstream defaults put it in /usr, allowing it to happen on gentoo that |
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way as well. |
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My thought is that eventually we will have more and more things that are |
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being installed in /usr. |
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> If somebody really is pushing for an all-out /usr move by all means |
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> speak up, but I think that basically what everybody is advocating is |
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> trying to follow upstream for individual packages. |
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Right, that's the issue. Some upstreams (mainly udev) have dropped |
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backward compatibility. But, I will be able to get around those for a |
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while. |
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William |
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