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On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 04:36:06PM -0600, Dale wrote: |
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> One of the reasons I left Mandriva was because of the init thingy. If I |
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> wanted one and liked having one, I would have never switched to Gentoo. |
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> The init thingy was not the only reason but it was one of them. The |
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> reason I do not want one is because it adds one more point of failure. |
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> In my past experience, it failed me a lot on Mandriva. I don't want to |
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> go backwards to failure. I want to keep moving forward, which is why I |
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> chose Gentoo, no init thingy needed unless you put / on something like |
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> LVM or encrypt it or something. That is why I put everything but /boot |
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> and / on LVM here, to avoid having to use a init thingy. I have done a |
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> lot to avoid that thing then it turns out, someone is trying to push it |
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> on me anyway. |
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> If I am forced to use a init thingy, the first time it fails and I can't |
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> fix it, I'm moving to something else. If I want a broken init thingy, I |
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> can find something else that suites my needs. I've said it before, I |
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> love Gentoo but I'm not going to reinstall or otherwise spend hours |
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> trying to fix something that I shouldn't need to to begin with and never |
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> needed before. Just saying. ;-) |
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> Dale |
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What Dale is saying is, "I don't want anything forced on me that leaves me no |
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choice but to accept it." That's a fundamental way of life to us (Dale, me, |
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and others). |
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Today the idea of being an individual, and not having another man's ideas |
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forced on everyone, has been mostly replaced by the "sheeple" mentality. There |
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are so many people who just go along without even questioning. We're not two |
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of those sheeple, and won't become such. |
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So, what most of you seem to be missing is this: the thing to which Dale (and |
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a lot of us) object to is not so much an initrd image, but being forced to |
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use something that is not our choice. |
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And the problem with it coming from the Fedora camp, and such an arrogant, |
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pompous, prima donna as Lennart Poeterring, is what is most objectionable. If |
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there was one modicum of common sense, of humility, in his personality, then |
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maybe more of this "older, independent, out-of-the-sheepfold" type of man |
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would check out his ideas. But, alas, It Won't Happen (TM). |
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Nice little DuckDuckGo hit: http://pastebin.com/RzZYnZwT |
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