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On Sunday, 4 August 2019 11:23:20 BST Kai Peter wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> now, upstream made the USE flag 'split-usr' global. This puts me a bit |
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> in a state of uncertainty :(. |
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> What is the reason or goal behind this change? I did read something |
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> about the flag itself but it wasn't really clear to me. What does this |
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> mean: |
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> "Enable behavior to support maintaining /bin and /lib separately from |
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> /usr/bin and /usr/lib" |
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> Maybe I have overseen some documentation? |
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> regards |
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> Kai |
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Have a look at this link, but there may be better explanations in the |
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interwebs: |
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https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ |
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Essentially the historical reasons for having a lot of separate directories/ |
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fs/partitions/disks are becoming obsolete and many of them are due to merge, |
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changing the baselayout. I assume the move to profile 17.1 to deal with the |
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various /lib directories was the start. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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