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On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 03:14:37PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> Something I don't like about this whole debate is that it tends to |
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> come off as "I've never run an initramfs and darn it I want to keep it |
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> that way." Gentoo has always been a cutting-edge/innovative distro. |
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> We have prefix, hardened, x32, and we were among the first to support |
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> amd64. Sure, that flexibility also lets you get away without an |
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> initramfs where other distros simply cannot. However, the lack of an |
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> initramfs should not be a crutch. |
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Rich, |
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you just hit my concern about this debate right on the head. I feel like |
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the nay-sayers are opposed to it because of the FHS, and the idea of |
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critical software going in / and everything else in /usr. The attitude |
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seems to be that has always worked, so it must continue to work into the |
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future, with no regard to the advantages that moving everything to /usr |
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would give us. |
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Another concern I've heard says that we shouldn't do this on linux |
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because gentoo *bsd doesn't do it. I don't see that as relevant |
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because ebuilds can be smart enough to test whether they are being |
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emerged on Linux or *BSD. |
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William |
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