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On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Alessio Ababilov |
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<ilovegnulinux@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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Hi Alessio. |
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> I wrote a script that allows /usr merge in Gentoo without changes to |
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> ebuilds. |
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> I described it in an article |
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> http://aababilov.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/usr-merge-in-gentoo/ |
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> Are there any volunteers to test it? I use it on my computers for two |
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> months. |
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I think it's a great experiment, but perhaps too much work for little |
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gain, at least currently. |
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The next council meeting will vote if separated /usr without and |
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initramfs is officially supported by Gentoo; I hope this time around |
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finally is officially and unequivocally stated by the council that a |
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separated /usr without an initramfs is *NOT* supported. |
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When that is out of the way, several packages will start to naturally |
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move to /usr, since most upstreams are doing that, and eventually we |
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will have empty /bin, /sbin, and /lib directories. Then there will be |
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no need for a script to move everything to /usr; which is good: I |
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believe in Gentoo a flag-day doesn't really work. |
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The usr-merge will be a slow, gradual change; it will probably take |
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years. The systemd package entered the tree in June 2011, after more |
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than a year in an overlay, and then it took more than two years to |
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make it an official alternative to OpenRC. The /usr merge will take a |
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similar amount of time, if not longer. |
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But it's good to know that you can do the merge now; thanks for |
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sharing your experiment. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |