[systemd-devel] systemd prerelease 256-rc1

[Neal Gompa]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 9:46 AM Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
>
> On Fr, 26.04.24 10:39, Dan Nicholson (dbn at endlessos.org) wrote:
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> > On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 10:11 AM Adrian Vovk <adrianvovk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Perhaps Fedora can be adjusted to follow the BLS's recommended mount points?
> >
> > The problem with all of these type of "we've realized a better way and
> > the old way is obsolete" is that it's left as someone else's issue to
> > actually change existing users from the obsolete way. I've written
> > code to migrate away from some old setup several times at Endless and
> > it's always scary that you're going to screw a whole class of users
> > and the only way out of that will be manual intervention. That's
> > doubly so for something like this where it's touching critical boot
> > files. Doing something wrong there may make someone's system unusable.
> >
> > So, while I do agree with the sentiment that /boot/efi is a bad idea
> > and should not be done anymore, I have a lot of sympathy for Fedora
> > continuing to use it.
>
> Well, people moved off split-usr quite successfully, which is a bigger
> feat than cleaning up the /boot/efi/ mess I'd say.
>
> Fedora is currently merging /usr/bin/ and /usr/sbin/, which I am pretty
> sure is a bigger change too.
>

Neither of those involved screwing with mountpoints and changing code
around bootloaders.

>From a distribution perspective, UsrMerge and the bin+sbin merge are
significantly simpler things.




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