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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: JD Horelick <jdhore1@×××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>, PR team <pr@g.o>, Gentoo Council <council@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: initramfs required on Linux systems with separate /usr
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:30:49
Message-Id: CAGfcS_kaUWG9r949Za387R68AU=26a50jFFkFLziTOYu+UkumA@mail.gmail.com
1 On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:03 AM, JD Horelick <jdhore1@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > My only issue here is that I feel like we should give users a bit longer
3 > than one month (34 days, close enough) to make this change. In some cases,
4 > it may require a large, architectural change which may take a while to be
5 > engineered and organized. I'd suggest making the cutoff for this January 1,
6 > 2014. I know that impedes our progress, but I feel it provides significant
7 > benefit to our users who may use seperate /usr.
8
9 30 days was approved by the Council after some discussion. The fact
10 that this was coming was announced about 45 days ago now, though it
11 did not include a news item. This really isn't much different than
12 any other change that has a potential to break systems, and we do not
13 routinely give many months of warning for these.
14
15 Rich