On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 5:18 AM Luca Boccassi <luca.bocca...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2022-04-07 at 10:59 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Mi, 06.04.22 11:24, Mike Gilbert (flop...@gentoo.org) wrote: > > > > > We are not likely to require merging of / and /usr for the foreseeable > > > future. We are a "rolling release" distro and basically never require > > > our users to re-install, which makes large file system migrations > > > difficult. Also, many of our users would resist any attempt to force > > > merged-/usr on them. > > > > So, my guess would be that the people who dislike merged-/usr are also > > the ones who dislike systemd, no? i.e. do they really matter if we are > > talking about what to support in systemd? They'd not use our stuff > > anyway, so why bother? > > > > > I think it would be ok if systemd drops support for installing itself > > > in /lib/systemd; we would just move everything under /usr/lib/systemd, > > > and possibly set up some symlinks in /lib/systemd for the > > > transition. > > > > You guys are making your life hell, because you are afraid if making > > it difficult... > > > > Lennart > > And regarding re-installing, Ubuntu and Debian are doing the transition > on the live filesystem, no reinstall required (I think other distros > did the same). You can find the script that does it in this repository: > https://salsa.debian.org/md/usrmerge apart from details about multi- > arch lib directories, it should be adaptable to other distributions.
Thanks for the link!
