On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Alessio Ababilov <ilovegnuli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi!
Hi Alessio. > I wrote a script that allows /usr merge in Gentoo without changes to > ebuilds. > > I described it in an article > http://aababilov.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/usr-merge-in-gentoo/ > > Are there any volunteers to test it? I use it on my computers for two > months. I think it's a great experiment, but perhaps too much work for little gain, at least currently. The next council meeting will vote if separated /usr without and initramfs is officially supported by Gentoo; I hope this time around finally is officially and unequivocally stated by the council that a separated /usr without an initramfs is *NOT* supported. When that is out of the way, several packages will start to naturally move to /usr, since most upstreams are doing that, and eventually we will have empty /bin, /sbin, and /lib directories. Then there will be no need for a script to move everything to /usr; which is good: I believe in Gentoo a flag-day doesn't really work. The usr-merge will be a slow, gradual change; it will probably take years. The systemd package entered the tree in June 2011, after more than a year in an overlay, and then it took more than two years to make it an official alternative to OpenRC. The /usr merge will take a similar amount of time, if not longer. But it's good to know that you can do the merge now; thanks for sharing your experiment. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
