[systemd-devel] Antw: [EXT] Dropping split-usr/unmerged-usr support

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On 06/04/2022 10:34, Luca Boccassi wrote:
>> Symlinking /sbin or /usr/sbin binaries to /usr is also a bad concept
>> IMHO.
>>
>> It seems systemd is the new Microsoft ("We know what is good for you;
>> just accept it!");-)

Well, I saw a link to WHY we have /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin etc. Interesting 
read ...

/ was disk0. /usr was apparently originally short for /user, on disk1. 
Then the system disk ran out of space, so they created /usr/bin to have 
more space. So when they got a 3rd disk, they called it /home and moved 
all the user directories across ...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ulrich
> Sorry, but you are about ~10 years late to this debate:-)  The question
> today is not whether it's good or bad, but who's left to do the switch.
> 
> We know Fedora/RHEL/CentOS/SUSE/Arch/Ubuntu have done the switch, and
> presumably any of their derivatives.
> 
> We know Debian is, er, working on it, as per the most recent article on
> LWN.
> 
> What about other distros that are not derivatives of the aboves and
> that use systemd? Does anybody have any insight?

gentoo defaults to OpenRC, but I'm running systemd. As far as I can tell 
I appear to have three distinct directories, /bin, /sbin, and /usr

I also have a fourth and fifth distinct directory, /usr/bin and 
/usr/sbin. What if any plans there are to merge them I have no clue.

Cheers,
Wol