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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:35:01
Message-Id: CAGfcS_mwU+6FLt6Gc==wta3F74ewig+u1AdQDn0ncoZAN8FLxA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook? by Dale
1 On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > How long till all this is going to be a absolute requirement?  That is my
3 > question.
4
5 Well, I don't speak for the teams that want to implement this, but my
6 recommendation is that it not become a requirement until everything is
7 in place to support it. So, our initramfs tools should automatically
8 find and mount /usr and /var, and so on. Documentation should be
9 updated as well, such as the raid+lvm guide. Once all that is done
10 and working in ~arch, then it could be stabilized, at which point we
11 can start expanding this dependency.
12
13 Considering that we still haven't finished doing all of this for
14 OpenRC yet, I wouldn't worry about the changes hitting you anytime
15 soon. I'd consider a lessons-learned from OpenRC that we shouldn't
16 stabilize packages until AFTER the docs are updated. Otherwise it can
17 tend to never happen.
18
19 Rich

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