On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > To make forward progress on bug 417451, introduce a new sep-usr eclass > that will hold all logic related to having a separate /usr. For now, > this is just the gen_usr_ldscript function and a new USE=sep-usr flag.
Seems like a decent idea. Before this flag gets added, should we define some bounds? I just don't want to see this flag get abused by using it to move other files around randomly, like moving things from /bin to /usr/bin, etc. > All ebuilds that call gen_usr_ldscript today will migrate to this and > will allow people to move away from installing things into /. For the > systems that want to have a split-/usr partition, they can turn on this > USE flag across their system. So the sep-usr flag will be disabled by default? That's going to trigger a change from the current state, and will definitely need to be announced.
