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On 09/19/2011 20:29, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> See: |
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> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove |
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> That is some of the rationale for Fedora. It isn't a bad idea both |
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> for destop-oriented and server-oriented setups. It especially makes |
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> sense for a more traditional distro with versioned releases (basicaly |
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> you just drop in a new /usr and you're done minus a few /etc updates - |
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> and if you make /etc nothing but overrides from defaults then it would |
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> itself be almost empty and not need updates much). |
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> Sure, we're not really planning to do that with Gentoo, but that is |
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> the pressure upstream is under. When you have big distros pushing all |
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> the major projects in a particular direction we need to be really |
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> selective about where we push back. |
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> The sky isn't falling though - nobody is looking to go out of their |
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> way to break non-root /usr, and we are looking to have a minimal |
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> initramfs even for those cases where it breaks a little. |
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> Rich |
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Good info, thanks! |
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It definitely seems like something RH is cooking up for future releases of |
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RHEL, where their primary customer base is going to be installing clusters |
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and a ton of VMs. I understand this, but I still disagree with them pushing |
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for this to be the default in a way to influence major projects. Regardless |
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if Gentoo goes in that direction or not, if enough core software adopts |
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this, we'll essentially have no choice but to adopt the same. |
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That's what I take issue with -- the whims of a commercial enterprise |
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ultimately deciding, at some possible, future point, what path we take. In |
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other words, those of us not running cluster farms shouldn't have to change |
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things, even slightly (like using an initramfs if needed) for those that do. |
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Linux's greatest asset is its extreme configurability -- a single source |
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tree can be compiled to run on super computers or cable boxes. |
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And I see yet another reference to MacOS's /System in that link, too... |
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Joshua Kinard |
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Gentoo/MIPS |
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kumba@g.o |
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4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 |
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"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And |
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our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." |
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--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic |