Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

[Grant Taylor]

On 8/6/19 9:54 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> If it's computable it can be done, of course. Therefore it can be done,
> currently. I don't think nobody has said it absolutely cannot be done.

 >.<

So it sounds like it's a question of /how/ compatible / possible it is.

It seems as if there is enough incompatibility / problems that multiple 
people are comfortable saying that it can't be done on some level.

> The thing is:
>
> 1. How much work implies to get it done.
> 2. Who is gonna do said work.
>
> The answer to 1 is "a lot", since (as someone mentioned in the thread)
> it involves changing not only the init (nevermind systemd; *ALL* init
> systems), but all applications that may require to use binaries in /usr
> before it's mounted.
>
> The answer to 2 is, effectively, "nobody", since it requires a big
> coordinated effort, stepping into the toes of several projects,
> significantly augmenting their code complexity for a corner case[1] that
> can be trivially be solved with an initramfs, which it just works.

I don't currently feel like I can give a proper response to this.

1)  I don't have the time to lab this and try things.
2)  I don't want to further hijack this thread and start discussing what 
precisely is and is not broken.
3)  I question — from a place of ignorance — just how much effort there 
is for #1.

> Arguing against this trivial (and IMHO, elegant) solution is tilting at
> windmills. Specially if it is for ideological reasons instead of
> technical ones.

Please clarify what "this trivial solution" is.  Are you referring to 
initramfs / initrd or the 'split-user' USE flag?



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Grant. . . .
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