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On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o> wrote: |
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> Create like, a table on the Wiki or some kind of metadata property per-package |
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> that can contain a boolean or tri-state flag indicating whether it works or |
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> doesn't work (or kinda works) on split-usr. Or a tracker on Bugzie. Something. |
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I'm sure there will be a tracker for packages that don't work on a |
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merged /usr. (We are already on a split /usr.) |
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Honestly, I'm still not quite sure why we're even having this |
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discussion. I don't think anybody actually intends to make any |
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changes at all. If they do, they should issue some kind of plan and |
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indicate what they're looking for from everybody else. |
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Such as: "Hello, I help maintain baselayout and I intend to change |
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/(s)lib and /(s)bin and /usr/sbin into symlinks to /usr/bin and move |
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all the files into those directories there. To test this out now |
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please do xyz, and report any bugs against tracker #123456." |
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Or: "Hello, I help maintain baselayout and I just introduced a new USE |
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flag which does ... I think it is something you should try out. Bugs |
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can be reported at..." |
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Or: "Hello, I think the baselayout maintainers are idiots and I just |
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introduced librelayout which does ... You should definitely switch |
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because only losers run with a split /usr. Bugs can be reported at... |
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Oh, and my fancy librelayout doesn't need gen_usr_ldscript so I |
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select_one_of('won't lift a finger to keep it working', 'will just |
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laugh at the folks who are wasting their time keeping it working')." |
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It seems to me that we're just having a general discussion about the |
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pros/cons of a /usr merge. That is nice, but people are getting |
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worked up because they think that somehow whoever "loses" this |
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"discussion" will get something shoved down their throats or won't be |
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able to have something nice. |
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Almost every big change that has become popular in Gentoo just started |
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out as another alternative, and support grew organically. I don't |
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really see the need to reach some kind of consensus here. I'd love to |
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have an option of a /usr merge and a migration path. I'd love to see |
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it as the default, but that is a different discussion, and if it is |
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optional then it is also a less contentious discussion whichever way |
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it goes. |
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