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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:32:25
Message-Id: CADPrc83XcfTGm_PHfdp2+GQf9GUyDeT8JaPYZm9ObYbqC+CX9w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo by Alessio Ababilov
1 On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Alessio Ababilov
2 <ilovegnulinux@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > Hi!
4
5 Hi Alessio.
6
7 > I wrote a script that allows /usr merge in Gentoo without changes to
8 > ebuilds.
9 >
10 > I described it in an article
11 > http://aababilov.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/usr-merge-in-gentoo/
12 >
13 > Are there any volunteers to test it? I use it on my computers for two
14 > months.
15
16 I think it's a great experiment, but perhaps too much work for little
17 gain, at least currently.
18
19 The next council meeting will vote if separated /usr without and
20 initramfs is officially supported by Gentoo; I hope this time around
21 finally is officially and unequivocally stated by the council that a
22 separated /usr without an initramfs is *NOT* supported.
23
24 When that is out of the way, several packages will start to naturally
25 move to /usr, since most upstreams are doing that, and eventually we
26 will have empty /bin, /sbin, and /lib directories. Then there will be
27 no need for a script to move everything to /usr; which is good: I
28 believe in Gentoo a flag-day doesn't really work.
29
30 The usr-merge will be a slow, gradual change; it will probably take
31 years. The systemd package entered the tree in June 2011, after more
32 than a year in an overlay, and then it took more than two years to
33 make it an official alternative to OpenRC. The /usr merge will take a
34 similar amount of time, if not longer.
35
36 But it's good to know that you can do the merge now; thanks for
37 sharing your experiment.
38
39 Regards.
40 --
41 Canek Peláez Valdés
42 Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
43 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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