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On 3/11/12 10:33 AM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 07:28:41PM -0800, Luca Barbato wrote: |
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>> On 3/10/12 6:53 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>>> neither the genkernel nor dracut docs have specific instructions about |
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>> I guess we could pour more effort in getting dracut more easy to use |
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>> and/or try to figure out which are the items that should be moved to / |
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>> and fix the remaining ones... |
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> I highly discourage moving more things to /. If you google for things |
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> like, "case for usr merge", "understanding bin split", etc, you will |
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> find much information that is very enlightening about the /usr merge and |
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> the reasons for the /bin, /lib, /sbin -> /usr/* split. |
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Our current init system doesn't have any problem with /usr being mounted |
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later, but udev might have issues. |
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Same could be said about bluez and dbus. |
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> I'll start another thread about this farely soon, but for now I'll say |
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> that even though Fedora is a strong advocate of the /usr merge, it |
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> didn't start there. Solaris started this 15 years ago, and I think it |
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> would be a good thing for gentoo to implement the /usr merge at some |
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> point to make us more compatible with other unixes. Another thing to add |
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> is that it appears that at least Fedora and Debian are doing this. |
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Hurd got it first if I recall correctly. But hurd is a bit fringe I'd say. |
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