[systemd-devel] Dropping split-usr/unmerged-usr support

[Mike Gilbert]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 5:18 AM Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2022-04-07 at 10:59 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Mi, 06.04.22 11:24, Mike Gilbert (floppym at 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?
> >
> > > 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...
> >
> > Lennart
>
> And regarding re-installing, Ubuntu and Debian are doing the transition
> on the live filesystem, no reinstall required (I think other distros
> did the same). You can find the script that does it in this repository:
> https://salsa.debian.org/md/usrmerge apart from details about multi-
> arch lib directories, it should be adaptable to other distributions.

Thanks for the link!