Please share your comments/questions on the proposed news item below. There is no immediate action required for most users, but it seems like a significant enough change to warrant a broadcast.
-- Title: systemd rootprefix migration Author: Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> Posted: 2017-07-14 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: >=sys-apps/systemd-234 Starting with the 234 release, Gentoo's sys-apps/systemd package will be built with rootprefix=/. This means most of the included programs and system units will be installed under /lib/systemd instead of /usr/lib/systemd. This change brings Gentoo into alignment with most other distros which still maintain a distiction between boot-critical programs in /, and less critical programs in /usr. This also means that users with a separate /usr filesystem will have an easier time booting if their initramfs should become corrupt or fail. Symlinks are provided for /usr/lib/systemd/systemd and /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-shutdown to avoid breaking bootloader configs and to allow the system to be shutdown/rebooted without issue. This change will be mostly transparent to typical users. You may notice that system units move from /usr/lib/system/system to /lib/system/system as you upgrade/re-install packages; this is normal. Units will function properly from both locations. As always, if you run into problems, please report a bug.
