2013/8/13 Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> > I think it's a great experiment, but perhaps too much work for little > gain, at least currently. > > Thank you!
> The next council meeting will vote if separated /usr without and > initramfs is officially supported by Gentoo; I hope this time around > finally is officially and unequivocally stated by the council that a > separated /usr without an initramfs is *NOT* supported. > As I see from http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130813.txt, the council has stated that it is not supported anymore. The usr-merge will be a slow, gradual change; it will probably take > years. The systemd package entered the tree in June 2011, after more > than a year in an overlay, and then it took more than two years to > make it an official alternative to OpenRC. The /usr merge will take a > similar amount of time, if not longer. > > Yes, but systemd is a large important package and it requires changes to startup files in other packages, so, it took a lot of time. As the opposite, /usr merge is easier and, IMHO, it doesn't introduce any _obvious_ problems to Gentoo. 2013/8/16 Daniel Campbell <li...@sporkbox.us> > > Red Hat is only upstream for GNOME and systemd. What they choose to do > with their distro should not affect the choices of any other distro. I > see no reason for a /usr merge unless one is using Fedora or wants to > turn their Gentoo installation into a makeshift Fedora installation. > This merge should not be forced on Gentoo whatsoever. > > I would like to ask you to understand my intension. I believe that Gentoo is a distro that is famous for providing choises (USE flags and so on). /usr merge is also a choise, and I look for volunteers and supporters. BTW, /usr merge is not just a Fedora's caprice: is is done in Arch this year: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-March/022625.html Sincerely, Alessio Ababilov Senior Software Engineer Grid Dynamics
