From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26F3259CAD for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:09:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4108221C075; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:08:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9455F21C04F for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:08:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56A58340CEE for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:08:53 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:08:52 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 00/21] gen_usr_ldscript: migrate away from a sep-/usr by default Message-ID: <20160331160852.GI6588@vapier.lan> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <1459382320-20672-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XVfZ3CnKScBEnH5L" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: ca62fa81-7b65-4643-bb1d-8b56b6daab0a X-Archives-Hash: d97a3763c7d11cee7d329ca5405936e9 --XVfZ3CnKScBEnH5L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 31 Mar 2016 10:12, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > To make forward progress on bug 417451, introduce a new sep-usr eclass > > that will hold all logic related to having a separate /usr. For now, > > this is just the gen_usr_ldscript function and a new USE=3Dsep-usr flag. >=20 > Seems like a decent idea. >=20 > Before this flag gets added, should we define some bounds? I just > don't want to see this flag get abused by using it to move other files > around randomly, like moving things from /bin to /usr/bin, etc. i think we can scope it currently for libs (and any data files they need), but i don't see it being a bad thing to leverage it for /bin progs. > > All ebuilds that call gen_usr_ldscript today will migrate to this and > > will allow people to move away from installing things into /. For the > > systems that want to have a split-/usr partition, they can turn on this > > USE flag across their system. >=20 > So the sep-usr flag will be disabled by default? That's going to > trigger a change from the current state, and will definitely need to > be announced. correct. i can put together a news item. -mike --XVfZ3CnKScBEnH5L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJW/UuUAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBQxIQAMBE6CFvVpn+GzisdUgo9s30 gz7zkMdsfV4mxY5JX4s0mcA0t+7ax3LgZfN/mypWKIf5jMx9zHasCvfJPua8Ig3g lImDvO/37IJ8Y/m707hd4ajpksYwhWrrGTsMOgCpL7D0iroar6uZbKnQCnJXZm6O rbh2O2OjRH6AHxYj6QN9E7dGlmJBM9gaPOnKc7ghDvd9HKzdNhwyKkrNXaPmQqZu /BeYdNCeJPWWG1NPWw7La2WVUamlnmRE7VYjh0TVYyrtE9W+8MEloVEY3/76odKb NQV3JB+tvyYV38+gp3y0vE8dnm+B0d87c6lbJ/lD80rV2li0GU0i3G/GhoA4e/vp 3TYSbr+xqmGHclD9fu0AUF1OPGhEAfrw3eOJdf7J6r6efhwdMxE0hmWPKgi045Xt 7DHUbcpMB+Uh6ueQ5n2aalSDHPSa0Y6//3kmcA9HbXEtzaBKq0twe0x8Y0Oh3+e8 8E3Bn+N+N8iwxOZGU2ztImqciTTPjwg1NSXKnp8JBRZNljJF10PA+YfVYgmziiPD YdvZV+2PfY60nUWXz4UksVNp3ATH3L3bAFrZyyQG0oQgJxfDTjpWy6N8+Cxw22hS GecPxG3feAMxIh6JdzruwufUKjHbJYzwiKe5lF2Iz/RgZzv1D2c2rJZFxdnSUgFk ORDaJSyBgFFuKwmDPTlZ =2Ya2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XVfZ3CnKScBEnH5L--