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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> 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 :-)
>


It was discussed on -dev in at least a couple threads I think.  I sort
of followed it and my take is, when set to on, which I think it is by
default, everything stays as it is now.  Could that change later on,
possibly.  I suspect given the change being pretty large, if it does
there will be a news item about it . Of course, that would be discussed
in advance on -dev as well. 

One way to get a heads up on this sort of thing, subscribe to -dev and
follow the threads that interest you, about upcoming changes at least. 
That's why I subscribe to -dev myself and have done so for years.  I
ignore a lot of it but the things that I think might affect me, I tend
to read those so as to figure out how it might affect me and can even
know the path going forward or how to work around it.  Just a thought.

Dale

:-)  :-)