On Samstag, 12. Oktober 2019 18:02:28 CEST William Hubbs wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 01:11:49PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 13:00 +0200, David Seifert wrote:
> > > * Some distros have not just merged / and /usr, they
> > > 
> > >   have also merged /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. By giving
> > >   users the choice of merging */bin and */sbin,
> > >   Gentoo follows suit.
> > 
> > What about the scenario when /bin has been merged with /usr/sbin
> > and /sbin with /usr/bin?  ;-P
> 
> I also don't see the need for something like this. The idea of the /usr
> merge is to have all binaries available in one place, and there really
> is not a good justification for separating bin from sbin.

Do I read this correctly?  USE=-split-usr currently means that /bin, /sbin, /
usr/bin and /usr/sbin point to the same directory?

If that is not the case, then I agree that users should have the possibility 
to set it up like this and USE=-split-sbin should be supported.

--Dennis