>>> Lennart Poettering <mzerq...@0pointer.de> schrieb am 07.04.2022 um 10:59 in Nachricht <Yk6n88Fq1WZmwgIm@gardel-login>: > On Mi, 06.04.22 11:24, Mike Gilbert (flop...@gentoo.org) wrote: > >> We are not likely to require merging of / and /usr for the foreseeable >> future. We are a "rolling release" distro and basically never require >> our users to re‑install, which makes large file system migrations >> difficult. Also, many of our users would resist any attempt to force >> merged‑/usr on them. > > 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?
Maybe explain why systemd required /usr to be part of the root filesystem instead. Maybe also explain the chicken-egg race with temporary directories that systemd added. > >> I think it would be ok if systemd drops support for installing itself >> in /lib/systemd; we would just move everything under /usr/lib/systemd, >> and possibly set up some symlinks in /lib/systemd for the >> transition. > > You guys are making your life hell, because you are afraid if making > it difficult... Maybe just add a manual page systemd-filesystem-concepts ;-) Regards, Ulrich Windl > > Lennart > > ‑‑ > Lennart Poettering, Berlin
