On 4/8/16 9:36 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 09:11:48PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> On 4/8/16 8:42 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> >>> >>> It is true that we offer a high degree of choice to users, but one of >>> those choices is not which paths to install binaries and libraries >>> into. >> >> I thought vapier was introducing a switch USE=usr-sep which allowed us >> to keep an unmerged /usr, or are we completely eliminating this choice? > > This use flag, sep-usr, has nothing to do with the /usr merge. It was > added as a way to allow a few more people to use separate /usr > configurations (this means/ and /usr on separate > filesystems) without initramfs, before the council decided that all who > have separate /usr should be using an initramfs. > > Separate /usr does not preclude merging / into /usr. > > William >
So I'm still not seeing a great gain from this merger. It seems like you think the linker scripts are something bad. Why? And you don't seem to like that we move some things around between / and /usr for pkgs like coreutils. But other than coreutils, I don't know many pkgs where we do that. Alternatively, this may introduce problems. So it seems like we're fixing something that isn't broken. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA
