On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Alessio Ababilov <ilovegnuli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/8/13 Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> >> >> I think it's a great experiment, but perhaps too much work for little >> gain, at least currently. >> > Thank you! >> >> 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. > > As I see from > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130813.txt, the council > has stated that it is not supported anymore.
Well, better late than never. It was about time. >> 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. >> > Yes, but systemd is a large important package and it requires changes to > startup files in other packages, so, it took a lot of time. > > As the opposite, /usr merge is easier and, IMHO, it doesn't introduce any > _obvious_ problems to Gentoo. Perhaps; please understand that I'm 100% behind the /usr merge. But even if it's easier than the introduction of virtual/service-manager, it's still true that in Gentoo flag days kinda don't work. The /usr merge will happen as more and more programs move naturally from / to /usr. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
