Ok, so the day has come. On the context of getting "/usr merge" on alpine, I am going to try update the FHS.
9 years after it was updated, big parts of it are out-of-sync with the current Linux distro conventions.
We (@postmarketOS) already pinged the @linuxfoundation about it in February, and their suggestion was to get somebody interested to do the work. So let's start that process now! Since the FHS mailing list seems defunc (I subscribed and sent an email in February that never got added to the archive), please send me an email at pabloyoyoista@postmarketos.org so we can get a list of people to start discussing the process
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The fact that a small, young distro like postmarketOS is trying to do this work seems a bit odd. I would have expected others with a lot more experience and leverage in the community to have jumped on updating it when they made the "/usr merge" compulsory. But since that didn't happen, we'll do our best.
The worst possible outcome is we spend some time, are unsuccessful getting enough traction to get the standard updated, and then we collectively agree the standard does not reflect reality and is dead. Let's hope we don't get there.
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@pabloyoyoista my take on it as a fellow distro maintainer is that we're all stretched so thin with trying to put out fires and deal with both unhappy users and unhappy upstreams that nobody has really had the energy to try to update it.
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@vimproved that's a shame. But that's where collaboration should help, I guess?
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