The Solus Linus project is preparing for an “epoch bump” so they can make breaking / high-impact changes to in effect bump the binary version of their package repository.
With this next epoch for Solus Linux they are aiming to complete their /usr merge transition. Last year they took care of moving executables from /bin and /sbin to within /usr but symlinks remain. They haven’t dropped those symlinks to avoid any potential user issues.
At the same time as completing their /usr merge they are also planning a big systemd update that they haven’t been able to pull off safely in their existing repository. In turn that’s needed for GNOME 49 and the like.
Plus Solus Linux developers will be working to finally remove Python 2 from the distribution. Due to their old Solus Software Center being written in Python 2 and other factors, completing the removal of Python 2 has been tricky.
Beginning later this month users will be able to try the transition to the new repository. If all goes well it will be as easy as “echo EPOCH_ENABLE=yes | sudo tee /etc/sysconfig/epoch” to migrate.
Those interested can learn more on the Solus blog.
