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 B309D138334 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:00:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C61DE0883; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:00:35 +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 2AE13E086A for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:00:35 +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 4C5CD34BD31 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:00:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: add global USE flag 'split-sbin' From: David Seifert To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:00:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <20191012110023.165840-1-soap@gentoo.org> <1bbad081be57654e20e590734ed8aa88dc6f6176.camel@gentoo.org> <20191012160228.GA2481@linux1.home> <25763900.3IMS5cSOPn@ernie> <86031cc11741c13b354ad85577a1e32c4ca97460.camel@gentoo.org> 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: a75327c0-f42b-4185-92eb-99000172d229 X-Archives-Hash: 664350d2889f360554271e2755853305 On Sun, 2019-10-13 at 12:33 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 1:52 PM David Seifert > wrote: > > 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. > > That was NOT my intention when I introduced the split-usr USE flag. > > For bin/sbin, I would prefer to drop any conflicting links > unconditionally. Do you have examples of scenarios where this is not > possible? > William has confirmed on IRC that USE=-split-usr performs the complete Fedora-esque /usr merge (which makes sense IMO).