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On 08-11-2012 20:46:29 -0300, Alexis Ballier wrote: |
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> > > Do you suggest to drop the point from the agenda? I'd love that. |
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> > I believe we can drop the gen_usr_ldscript question, yes, because if |
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> > everything else happens, we can just have the toolchain guys make it a |
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> > noop on Linux. |
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> Something simpler and smoother imho is to just have a profile variable |
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> that will make gen_usr_ldscript a noop, whatever CHOST or the kernel is. |
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> New profiles are added with this variable set, wide testing can be done |
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> without forcing anyone, and voila. It is also simpler for maintaining |
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> the various OSes, packages that used to install to / can just be |
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> changed to install to /usr when this variable is set. |
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+1 |
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That is what we currently do in Prefix. The plan is to enable it for |
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new installs. Just waiting at the moment because we horribly break |
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systems when we change the behaviour of gen_usr_ldscript on an existing |
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system. |
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For Gentoo Linux, since I don't run udev (any more) and my systems are |
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servers, I'll never have the need for any of this, so with that approach |
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I could simply keep my system as is, no risks imposed by moving crucial |
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libs around, and no problem for people that want to stabilise udev, |
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GNOME, whatever, since those packages could even be masked. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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