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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] udev and /usr
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:27:16
Message-Id: CADqQcK6F8N43w2cgNwxyU6VA4zxg3B+1aBaOVnUUsVRmr9k_7g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] udev and /usr by "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto"
1 On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2 <jmbsvicetto@g.o> wrote:
3 > On 18-09-2011 12:59, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
4 >> I'm astonished by the large amount of misinformation that is being
5 >> spread around about systemd. If this originated on the gentoo-user
6 >> mailing list, I'm disappointed that Gentoo users wouldn't do some
7 >> basic research.
8 >>
9 >> I kind of expect this kind of trigger-happy FUD from websites like
10 >> omgubuntu, but surely Gentoo folk are more mature.
11 >
12 > You mean that no Linux users, in particular anyone not running or not
13 > wanting to run GNOME and Fedora, shouldn't be worried about the way
14 > some people in the GNOME and Fedora community seem intent to impose
15 > their ways to everyone else?
16
17 If their ways are better, there should be absolutely no problem.
18
19 > Worse, in the process seeming to want to
20 > convince everyone they found the panacea and that the "old unix ways"
21 > that have been around for 40+ years are all obsolete and that we
22 > should give in to "the collective"?
23 >
24
25 I don't see how this is relevant to the problem of udev and /usr at
26 all. Unless you want to go back to the days of devfs and lots of
27 manual configuration. :)
28
29 My problem was with people blaming the need for an initramfs on
30 systemd, which is not true at all. The discussion of the relative
31 merits and demerits of systemd is an entirely different discussion.
32
33 --
34 ~Nirbheek Chauhan
35
36 Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team

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Re: [gentoo-dev] udev and /usr Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o>