"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org> writes:

> Hi all, 
>
> the 23.0 profiles are ready for testing, including stage downloads,
> binary packages, and update instructions for existing installations,
> for all arches.
>
> [...]
>
> Note 2: While there are 23.0 split-usr profiles, the *stage* downloads
> are *all* of the merged-usr type. Why? Not because I'm a big fan of that, 
> but because we should try to unify and standardize a bit again - to 
> avoid too many different build configurations leading to too many Heisenbugs.

I don't think this is a good idea.

We've promised people that they can keep unmerged-usr if they want, but
not having stages means new installs aren't doable, and it also makes
testing a pain because you can't easily unmerge.

You can easily merge, but you can't easily unmerge.

What you can do is provide a limited number of non-merged-usr variants
given it's just about saving people rebuilds.

(I also think it's the wrong way to do such a change anyway - the releng
part should be last after decision-making, not first.)

> [...]
> Cheers & have fun,

thanks,
sam