Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2019-08-04 12:29, Mick wrote: > >> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ >> >> Essentially the historical reasons for having a lot of separate >> directories/ fs/partitions/disks are becoming obsolete and many of >> them are due to merge, changing the baselayout. I assume the move to >> profile 17.1 to deal with the various /lib directories was the start. > I know about the history as it relates to Unix and Linux in general. In > fact I think I've read that article long ago. But the question is > what's up in gentoo. I suspect another potentially painful migration is > on the horizon; it would be good to know the speed we're moving toward > the horizon :-) >
It was discussed on -dev in at least a couple threads I think. I sort of followed it and my take is, when set to on, which I think it is by default, everything stays as it is now. Could that change later on, possibly. I suspect given the change being pretty large, if it does there will be a news item about it . Of course, that would be discussed in advance on -dev as well. One way to get a heads up on this sort of thing, subscribe to -dev and follow the threads that interest you, about upcoming changes at least. That's why I subscribe to -dev myself and have done so for years. I ignore a lot of it but the things that I think might affect me, I tend to read those so as to figure out how it might affect me and can even know the path going forward or how to work around it. Just a thought. Dale :-) :-)
