Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

[Dale]

Zac Medico wrote:
> On 01/21/2012 01:34 PM, Dale wrote:
>> Michał Górny wrote:
>>>> It's funny how I never needed one before either but now things are
>>>> being broken.  It's not LVM that is breaking it either.  I wouldn't
>>>> need the initramfs even if It was on a regular partition until the
>>>> recent so called "improvements."
>>>
>>> ...and your main argument is 'long, long ago someone decided that it
>>> should match the same taste as mine, so it should be like it forever'.
>>> Of course, those times there were no such thing as an initramfs...
>>>
>>
>>
>> Then don't break that.  Just because someone came up with a initramfs
>> doesn't mean everyone should be forced to use one.
>
> The old way imposes requirements that are no longer supported by
> upstream software. So, you basically have three choices:
>
>   1) Use old software that supports the old way
>   2) Develop new software to support the old way
>   3) Use an initramfs or pre-init script to mount /usr if it must be on
> a separate partition


So the solution is to break things because things are broken.  Sort of
running in circles there.  Pardon me, I'm dizzy.

Dale

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