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From: Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: rfc: using /libexec
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 11:43:58 +0200
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:32:05 +0300
Alexey Shvetsov <alexxy@g.o> wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 11:27:05 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:17:21 +0300
> > Alexey Shvetsov <alexxy@g.o> wrote:
> >
> >> Moving things as openrc to /usr/libexec will effectevely barake old
> >> systems with separtae / and /usr. So it isnt good idea
> >
> > Old systems should migrate to initramfs, like it was already pointed
> > out before. Breakage is already there, you just don't notice it.
> 
> Almoust all of my systems have lvm and separated /usr. And all of
> them still boot fine

There's a difference between 'booting fine' and 'booting without any
silent failures and retries which fix stuff, not to mention ugly hacks
necessary to get things working'. And it will be even worse, at some
point.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
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-- William Hubbs
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Re: rfc: using /libexec
-- William Hubbs
Re: rfc: using /libexec
-- Michał Górny
Re: rfc: using /libexec
-- Alexey Shvetsov
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