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On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 00:40 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> Hi all |
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> Recently, there was a firestorm on the gentoo-user list over the idea |
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> that udev would eventually require /usr to be on the same physical |
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> parition as /, or else use initramfs, which is its own can of worms. I'm |
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> not a programmer, let alone a developer. Rather than merely ranting, I |
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> went and searched for an alternative. |
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You completely misunderstand what Kay wants, what we are saying that is |
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that you need to mount /usr at the same time as you mount /, which you |
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can still do in your initramfs, etc. |
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That said, we, the GNOME upstream, think that having a separate /usr is |
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a completely stupid idea. |
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Olivier Crête |
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tester@g.o |
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Gentoo Developer |
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