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Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: usr merge
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William Hubbs posted on Thu, 07 Apr 2016 09:40:49 -0500 as excerpted:
> After the testing period is over, I'm confused about why we should
> support both layouts. With separate usr without initramfs gone, the usr
> merge is transparent to end users because of the symbolic links in /, so
> there should be no reason to keep supporting both layouts once we are
> satisfied with the migration process.
Because we're Gentoo, and gentooers tend to have rather strong opinions
on what sort of choices we should be able to make about things like that.
Honestly, that's going to look to a lot of people like another of the
systemd/RedHat alliance overreaches and they're not going to go for it,
simple as that. People are likely to feel strongly enough about it that
we'll be risking triggering a distro split. The ability to make that
sort of choice is /why/ they are on gentoo.
So by all means, present it as an option, document it in the handbooks,
and even make it the default (and we all know how strongly people feel
about even changing a default after the eudev debate), but I don't think
it's a fight worth having to take away the other choices. At least not
now. Maybe in five or ten years, after another generation of devs has
come and gone, if the new one isn't interested in supporting the
alternative any longer.
(Again, I say this as one who has already done the merge here, if in
reverse, and who fully intends to setup new systems the same way as well.)
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