On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 7:41 AM, James Le Cuirot <ch...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 07:31:03 -0400 > "Anthony G. Basile" <bluen...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> @anyone, can you list the reasons we're doing this (I'm sure there's >> more than one). If systemd if one of them, then I'm confused because >> debian has switched to systemd and yet has not merged usr. > > Not that I'm for or against the merge but note that openSUSE, which has > also switched to systemd, hasn't done the merge either. >
systemd and /usr merge are also fairly orthogonal. There are many reasons for a /usr merge, but most tend to revolve around getting all the relatively static distro-supplied content into a single place. That makes it easier to make a separate filesystem, or read-only, or signature-checked, or atomically updated, or shared, and so on. Some of those derivative benefits may be harder to realize on Gentoo, but I think the principle is worth considering. -- Rich
