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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: alexxy@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: using /libexec
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:42:42
Message-Id: 20110907114358.5006b5ec@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: using /libexec by Alexey Shvetsov
1 On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:32:05 +0300
2 Alexey Shvetsov <alexxy@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 11:27:05 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:17:21 +0300
6 > > Alexey Shvetsov <alexxy@g.o> wrote:
7 > >
8 > >> Moving things as openrc to /usr/libexec will effectevely barake old
9 > >> systems with separtae / and /usr. So it isnt good idea
10 > >
11 > > Old systems should migrate to initramfs, like it was already pointed
12 > > out before. Breakage is already there, you just don't notice it.
13 >
14 > Almoust all of my systems have lvm and separated /usr. And all of
15 > them still boot fine
16
17 There's a difference between 'booting fine' and 'booting without any
18 silent failures and retries which fix stuff, not to mention ugly hacks
19 necessary to get things working'. And it will be even worse, at some
20 point.
21
22 --
23 Best regards,
24 Michał Górny

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