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From: Steven J Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 17:21:26
Message-Id: jo133v$rtm$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012 by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2
3 > On Friday 04 May 2012 12:36:20 Steven J Long wrote:
4 >> Mike Frysinger wrote:
5 >> > - this is why /etc/localtime is no longer a symlink to
6 >> > /usr/share/zoneinfo/
7 >>
8 >> - don't think that makes any difference to rescue situation.
9 >
10 > no, but that isn't the driving factor here. programs get executed before
11 > /usr is mounted which means these things need to be available. otherwise,
12 > dates in logs and such are wrong. the rest of your comments should be
13 > taken in the same light.
14
15 OK, fair enough. I still don't think it makes much difference in terms of
16 the viability of moving certain directories (for the admin, not the distro)
17 given the current setup. Nonetheless, I'll just wait til your busybox applet
18 is the officially-supported method of split /usr without an initramfs ;)
19
20 (It'll mean openrc by default gets a faster bootup, which matters to some
21 people.)
22
23 Steve.
24 --
25 #friendly-coders -- We're friendly, but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)