From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 70ECD138334 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 17:52:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 01F7AE08DC; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 17:52:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B2C5FE0821 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 17:52:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thinkpad.fritz.box (unknown [IPv6:2001:4060:c005:3f00:9491:b020:96bd:fae]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: soap) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C7F3B34BCA7; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 17:52:06 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <86031cc11741c13b354ad85577a1e32c4ca97460.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: add global USE flag 'split-sbin' From: David Seifert To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: William Hubbs Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 19:52:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: <25763900.3IMS5cSOPn@ernie> References: <20191012110023.165840-1-soap@gentoo.org> <1bbad081be57654e20e590734ed8aa88dc6f6176.camel@gentoo.org> <20191012160228.GA2481@linux1.home> <25763900.3IMS5cSOPn@ernie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.32.4 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 5d927b70-16eb-4183-b886-91cca0de3c9e X-Archives-Hash: a70862f239138ea59b53f2756d761afb On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 19:01 +0200, Dennis Schridde wrote: > 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 I agree, I wasn't aware that USE=-split-usr implies the complete 2- level (/usr and *sbin) merge. In that case, all of this is obsolete.