On 07/04/2022 17:47, Mike Gilbert wrote:
So, my guess would be that the people who dislike merged-/usr are also the ones who dislike systemd, no? i.e. do they really matter if we are talking about what to support in systemd? They'd not use our stuff anyway, so why bother?
There's probably also a big minority of users (like me) who may be pro-systemd, but run a systemd-hostile distro for reasons that are nothing to do with systemd ...
There's probably a large overlap between users who don't like systemd and users who don't like merged-/usr. I would guess we don't have a critical mass of users/developers running systemd. I could probably force the users who do run systemd to migrate to merged-/usr, but I don't really see much benefit from that if all other packages in Gentoo still need to support both configurations.
And I'm sorry if I upset Mike, but I class gentoo as systemd-hostile. It's MUCH easier to install/run Gentoo with OpenRC, systemd isn't that well documented (it's better than it was). There are people who support systemd, but I get the impression it's seen as an unwanted rival to OpenRC.
But there's not much choice out there for systemd-friendly source-based distros. Funtoo is openly anti-systemd. Sourceror (which I plan to play with) seems not to be that successful - looks like there are few users beyond the core developers ... and that feels like it's one of the better ones ...
Cheers, Wol
