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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Support for Seperate /usr
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 01:57:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51FAE7ED.3080807@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130801224933.GA32734@linux1>

On 02/08/13 01:49, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 05:16:26PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> I do favor the dropping of support for separate /usr without an early
>> boot workaround.  I just don't think the council should actually step
>> in until somebody needs us to, or as part of some larger plan.  If the
>> base-system maintainers have things under control, better to let them
>> handle it.
>
> The whole reason I brought this up is, according to some, the council
> did step in in April of 2012 and mandate that we must support separate
> /usr without an early boot workaround. If you read the meeting log from
> that meeting, it seems pretty clear that was chainsaw's intent.
>
> Because of that perception, if base-system decides to do something
> differently, there would definitely be flack over it.
>
> In a nutshell, I am asking the council this question:
>
> Is separate /usr, without an early boot mechanism like an initramfs,
> an officially supported configuration?
>
> William
>

The work can continue separating / vs. /usr deps still -- I've just done 
that for libusb, libusbx, libusb-compat using `gen_usr_ldscript -a` from 
toolchain-funcs.eclass

Then gen_usr_ldscript could be converted to no-op, or at least gain 
environment variable like USR_MOVE="yes" in which case nothing is moved 
to / and it's really no-op.

This was just discussed today at end of this bug 478878

So let's keep the work going if someone requests, but lets convert 
gen_usr_ldscript optional


  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-01 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-01 21:16 [gentoo-project] Support for Seperate /usr Rich Freeman
2013-08-01 21:42 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2013-08-01 23:26   ` Rich Freeman
2013-08-01 22:49 ` William Hubbs
2013-08-01 22:57   ` Samuli Suominen [this message]
2013-08-01 23:15   ` Rich Freeman
2013-08-02  3:04     ` Dale
2013-08-02  8:15       ` Michał Górny
2013-08-06  0:32 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-08-11 14:59 ` [gentoo-project] Support for separate /usr Ulrich Mueller

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