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William Hubbs posted on Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:10:49 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> If you have / and /usr on separate file systems and you are not |
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> currently using an initramfs, you must set one up before this date. |
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> Otherwise, at some point on or after this date, upgrading packages will |
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> make your system unbootable. |
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That last sentence makes me uncomfortable, because I think to some it |
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will look like more of the same "crying wolf" (from their perspective) |
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they've seen from certain quarters before, all while initr*-less separate- |
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usr kept on working. (I would have posted earlier, except it took me |
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awhile, and reading the other replies, to finally figure out what was |
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bothering me about it. Sorry for the late suggestion.) |
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As such, I think it's at once too strong, because as we've already seen |
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with busybox, there are other ways around it, and too weak, as in the |
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context of all the other "crying wolf" some have seen on this subject, it |
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doesn't really convey that things very well /could/ be different for |
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gentooers this time, because /gentoo/ isn't going to be going out of its |
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way to fix those bugs any more. |
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So I'd suggest something like this: |
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Otherwise, at some point on or after this date, a package update MAY make |
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your system unbootable, and should it do so you'd be on your own, as |
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gentoo will no longer be considering that a bug that it must fix. |
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(Perhaps someone has a more concise version that conveys the same idea?) |
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Because I think that better conveys the exact change, thus hopefully |
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avoiding both the people that might otherwise say "but just as all the |
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other times it didn't break for me", and the folks who might THINK it's |
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more of the same, when there really IS a difference for gentooers this |
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time, as it's gentoo that's no longer going to be running interference |
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between upstream and gentoo users in this regard, and that's what has in |
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fact been keeping it working for many gentooers to this point. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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