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From: Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changing order of default virtual/udev provider
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:10:52
Message-Id: 20160210090940.6a0183d1.dolsen@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changing order of default virtual/udev provider by William Hubbs
1 On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:26:12 -0600
2 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
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4
5 > > Often the decision to procrastinate is a decision that is rewarded.
6 > > That should be considered carefully.
7 >
8 > + 10000.
9 >
10 > I also saw another issue that made me shudder. If we change the
11 > default to eudev, people who are running separate /usr are going to
12 > think they can kill their initramfs's, because people in gentoo
13 > conflated the separate /usr and initramfs issue with udev [1].
14 >
15 > William
16 >
17 > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573760#C4
18
19 That isn't a worthwhile reason to procrastinate.
20 IMO we're going to get those _ANYWAY_ no matter how long we
21 wait, within reason of course.
22
23 There will always be users that can't read/type/whatever and fail and
24 file bugs.
25
26 So if we have to wait for one (or more) users to forget about the
27 initramfs crud & confusion, we'll be waiting 20 years. By then even
28 systemd will have been replaced by something else...
29 --
30 Brian Dolbec <dolsen>

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