[gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org>]

If I correctly remember the post by Lennart that spawned this entire
debate, there were and are genuine technical reasons why a separate /usr
filesystem doesn't really work anymore.  Perhaps fixable _if_ all package
developers (other than init) paid attention but that's not going to
happen.

Now of course there is some leap from the above to making /bin and
/usr/bin the same _directory_.  AFAIK there is no good reason for that
other than making it easier to write initscripts (or units).  I'm not
going to opine how good a reason is that :P

Myself, I just have /usr on the rootfs.  I don't have an initramfs; when
I need a "rescue" environment I boot from a USB stick, not necessarily
gentoo.  Devuan seems to be the best for this kind of thing nowadays.

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