Re: systemd prerelease 256-rc1

[Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fr, 26.04.24 10:39, Dan Nicholson (dbn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 10:11 AM Adrian Vovk <adrianvovk@xxxxxxxxx> 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 the old way is obsolete" is that it's left as someone else's issue to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.

Noone here has any illusions, this is not going to be fixed from today
to tomorrow, just like the usr-merge wasn't done in a day or the
sbin-merge doesn't happen in a single day either. But I am very sure
we shouldn't let the Linux platform stagnate like this. I think it
really should be time to clean up /boot/efi/, we don't want that
people get bored after the sbin-merge is complete, after all!

Lennart

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