Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:52:41
Message-Id: 5212225D.8000906@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo by William Kenworthy
1 On 19/08/2013 15:36, William Kenworthy wrote:
2 > I still have not seen an adequate explanation as to why systemd isn't a
3 > profile as its far more intrusive than a gnome/kde choice and they have
4 > profiles. That way some bad choices like polluting systems with systemd
5 > files because they are only small and insignificant might be avoided. I
6 > have used the mask method but did waste some time on chasing down odd
7 > errors due to missing file errors in the logs so I would rather not have
8 > them on the system at all.
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11 There was an uber-thread on -dev over the last two months that covered
12 most of these bases. I stopped paying attention about halfway through...
13 but it's all there on gmane.
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15 The thread started with with a proposed sysvinit -> systemd migration
16 script, and it quickly became obvious why profiles and USE flags look OK
17 at first glance but rapidly becomes apparent that they aren't.
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20 Alan McKinnon
21 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com