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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:13:29
Message-Id: 20120105210935.48306bb9@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by "Olivier Crête"
1 On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:02:09 -0500
2 Olivier Crête <tester@g.o> wrote:
3 > On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 20:08 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 > > On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 13:30:24 -0600
5 > > William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
6 > > > > Or will /etc move to /usr too?
7 > > >
8 > > > No, /etc isn't going anywhere.
9 > >
10 > > Are you sure? I heard a rumour that systemd will soon require you to
11 > > put /etc inside your initrd (since / can't be mounted without it).
12 > > Obviously, you'd have to reboot if you made any changes to your
13 > > config files, but that's OK since you can't safely restart daemons
14 > > anyway.
15 >
16 > Dude, the systemd people are not crazy. You should try to understand
17 > what they do before criticizing.
18
19 I don't claim they're crazy. I claim they're sacrificing functionality,
20 correctness, loose coupling, simplicity, well defined behaviour,
21 understandability and stability in order to implement questionable new
22 shiny things.
23
24 --
25 Ciaran McCreesh

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