On 31 Mar 2016 10:12, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > To make forward progress on bug 417451, introduce a new sep-usr eclass > > that will hold all logic related to having a separate /usr. For now, > > this is just the gen_usr_ldscript function and a new USE=sep-usr flag. > > Seems like a decent idea. > > Before this flag gets added, should we define some bounds? I just > don't want to see this flag get abused by using it to move other files > around randomly, like moving things from /bin to /usr/bin, etc.
i think we can scope it currently for libs (and any data files they need), but i don't see it being a bad thing to leverage it for /bin progs. > > All ebuilds that call gen_usr_ldscript today will migrate to this and > > will allow people to move away from installing things into /. For the > > systems that want to have a split-/usr partition, they can turn on this > > USE flag across their system. > > So the sep-usr flag will be disabled by default? That's going to > trigger a change from the current state, and will definitely need to > be announced. correct. i can put together a news item. -mike
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