Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-28 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2012.12.27 22:13, William Hubbs wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 03:14:37PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: Something I don't like about this whole debate is that it tends to come off as I've never run an initramfs and darn it I want to keep it that way. Gentoo has always been a

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 27 December 2012 17:13:56 William Hubbs wrote: Another concern I've heard says that we shouldn't do this on linux because gentoo *bsd doesn't do it. I don't see that as relevant because ebuilds can be smart enough to test whether they are being emerged on Linux or *BSD. +1 -mike

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Tony Chainsaw Vroon chain...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 22:01 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: Actually, since ulm pointed out in another thread that the council has not mandated that we support separate /usr without an initramfs, I am re-considering

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-27 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 07:55:38AM +, Tony Chainsaw Vroon wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 22:01 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: Actually, since ulm pointed out in another thread that the council has not mandated that we support separate /usr without an initramfs, I am re-considering this.

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-27 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:00:09AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Tony Chainsaw Vroon chain...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 22:01 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: Actually, since ulm pointed out in another thread that the council has not mandated that we

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:03 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:00:09AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Tony Chainsaw Vroon chain...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 22:01 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: Actually, since

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-27 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:35:55PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:03 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:00:09AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Tony Chainsaw Vroon chain...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed,

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:03 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: As I and others have said on this list a thousdand times, moving everything to /usr never had anything to do with systemd and udev. This is a completely separate topic. Understood. However, the whole request to not

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-27 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:49:50PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:03 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: As I and others have said on this list a thousdand times, moving everything to /usr never had anything to do with systemd and udev. This is a completely

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:48 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:49:50PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: Understood. However, the whole request to not have to support a separate /usr without an initramfs was brought up by the udev team. If udev doesn't have the

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-27 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 15:14 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: Go bring up the suggestion that the kernel should support direct booting on lkml And be pointed at EFI_STUB functionality. Next? Regards, Tony V. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Tony Chainsaw Vroon chain...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 15:14 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: Go bring up the suggestion that the kernel should support direct booting on lkml And be pointed at EFI_STUB functionality. Next? I was referring to booting

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 26 December 2012 23:01:46 William Hubbs wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:48:23PM +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 24/12/2012 20:08, Mike Frysinger wrote: i.e. saying we should get rid of gen_usr_ldscript and use --libdir=/lib makes absolutely no sense. it's just begging

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 27 December 2012 13:49:50 Rich Freeman wrote: I think moving everything into /usr is a good idea. However: i don't think it's hard to support both. the majority of packages just want to relocate shared libs into / from /usr and that's easy with one line: gen_usr_ldscript

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-27 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 03:14:37PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: Something I don't like about this whole debate is that it tends to come off as I've never run an initramfs and darn it I want to keep it that way. Gentoo has always been a cutting-edge/innovative distro. We have prefix, hardened,

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-26 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:48:23PM +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 24/12/2012 20:08, Mike Frysinger wrote: i.e. saying we should get rid of gen_usr_ldscript and use --libdir=/lib makes absolutely no sense. it's just begging for people to screw things up constantly and waste developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-26 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 22:01 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: Actually, since ulm pointed out in another thread that the council has not mandated that we support separate /usr without an initramfs, I am re-considering this. So now that the /usr-merge steamroller can not break systems through udev,

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-24 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 24/12/2012 20:08, Mike Frysinger wrote: i.e. saying we should get rid of gen_usr_ldscript and use --libdir=/lib makes absolutely no sense. it's just begging for people to screw things up constantly and waste developer time for 0 gain. Amen. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes