[gentoo-user] HACK: Boot without an initramfs / initrd while maintaining a separate /usr file system.

2019-08-04 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/4/19 7:26 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: I am also using a bit of a hack that I think could be (re)used to allow /usr being a separate file system without /requiring/ an initramfs / initrd. (I'll reply in another email with details to avoid polluting this thread.) I think that a variation of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-04 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/4/19 12:03 PM, Mick wrote: I don't know more about this, but it seems we are being dragged towards a systemd inspired future, whether the majority of the gentoo community of users want it or not. How is the /usr merger /directly/ related to systemd? In my view system binaries should not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-04 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 4 August 2019 18:07:41 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2019-08-04 12:29, Mick wrote: > > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ > > > > Essentially the historical reasons for having a lot of separate > > directories/ fs/partitions/disks are becoming obsol

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-04 Thread Dale
Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2019-08-04 12:29, Mick wrote: > >> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ >> >> Essentially the historical reasons for having a lot of separate >> directories/ fs/partitions/disks are becoming obsolete and many of >> them are due to merge,

[gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-04 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-08-04 12:29, Mick wrote: > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ > > Essentially the historical reasons for having a lot of separate > directories/ fs/partitions/disks are becoming obsolete and many of > them are due to merge, changing the baselayout. I

[gentoo-user] Re: acct-group packages ??

2019-08-04 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-08-03 18:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: > It seems odd that portage would want to install packages that weren't > a dependency of something else. They are here, for example > > % emerge -cpv acct-group/kvm > > Calculating dependencies... done! > acct-group/kvm-0 pulled in by: > acct-user

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-04 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 4 August 2019 11:23:20 BST Kai Peter wrote: > Hi, > > now, upstream made the USE flag 'split-usr' global. This puts me a bit > in a state of uncertainty :(. > > What is the reason or goal behind this change? I did read something > about the flag itself but it wasn't really clear to me.

[gentoo-user] USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-04 Thread Kai Peter
Hi, now, upstream made the USE flag 'split-usr' global. This puts me a bit in a state of uncertainty :(. What is the reason or goal behind this change? I did read something about the flag itself but it wasn't really clear to me. What does this mean: "Enable behavior to support maintaining