On 09/16/2011 14:06, Duncan wrote:

> 
> Careful with the "extreme".  As you no doubt realize by now, the udev 
> folks apparently consider anyone wanting a separate /usr but not an initr* 
> "extreme".  That'd certainly apply double if said admin (since no simple 
> "user" cares about such stuff, in this view) had /usr on lvm.


I'd say the udev folks need their coffee/tea checked.  If this logic stems
from some requirement for a window manager/desktop environment on some other
distro, then we need to make sure that becomes a configurable item in Gento
or not support that package.

This is the exact setup I use, and it's worked great since 2003.  No, it's
not the setup for everyone, so I don't think it should be mandatory for
everyone, either.  I expect the same for other approaches to have a use for
some segment of users, but not to code it in as a hard-set default.
Gentoo's about choice.  Why else do we have more USE flags than the entirety
of the IPv6 address space?

(okay, I'm stretching that last a sentence a fair bit ...)

-- 
Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
kumba@g.o
4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28

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