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 2B680138334 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2019 17:07:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6618EE08D6; Sun, 4 Aug 2019 17:07:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from very.loosely.org (very.loosely.org [173.255.215.69]) (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 EC94DE08C0 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2019 17:07:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c-67-174-233-217.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([67.174.233.217]:57842 helo=foolinux.mooo.com) by ahiker.mooo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92.1-100-162140b78) (envelope-from ) id 1huJz4-0000Ni-V0; Sun, 04 Aug 2019 10:07:51 -0700 Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2019 10:07:41 -0700 From: Ian Zimmerman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global Message-ID: <20190804170741.fesbfdgfs2wh2ya6@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> References: <11147c49836aa1983da6a4a546fdf116@dyndn.es> <4675476.tF2vNRvkJ9@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4675476.tF2vNRvkJ9@localhost> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 X-Loosely-ASN: 7922 X-Archives-Salt: f8de99c7-2dd7-4c2c-9d14-511e2d193be5 X-Archives-Hash: 95b901a6ce15d7282c7f977b8c454fc3 On 2019-08-04 12:29, Mick wrote: > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ > > Essentially the historical reasons for having a lot of separate > directories/ fs/partitions/disks are becoming obsolete and many of > them are due to merge, changing the baselayout. I assume the move to > profile 17.1 to deal with the various /lib directories was the start. I know about the history as it relates to Unix and Linux in general. In fact I think I've read that article long ago. But the question is what's up in gentoo. I suspect another potentially painful migration is on the horizon; it would be good to know the speed we're moving toward the horizon :-) -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.