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On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 11:59:09PM -0400, Damien Levac wrote |
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> > Seriously... how many people run Bluetooth keyboards on Gentoo |
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> > anyways? |
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> That you ask such a question is concerning to me. Are we |
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> discriminating against normal desktop users now? |
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Here's the item that really bugs me... |
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before - many people successfully used separate /usr, without initramfs. |
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A few edge cases, e.g. people with bluetooth keyboards, had to use |
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initramfs if they wanted a separate /usr. The poor darlings felt left |
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out because they had to do extra setup work, versus the other 95%. |
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now - an arbitrary decree comes down that *EVERYBODY* who wants a |
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separate /usr needs to have initramfs. |
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* IT DOES NOT MAKE THINGS ANY EASIER FOR THE ORIGINAL 5% EDGE CASES *. |
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But the other 95% who could run separate /usr are now being told they |
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must run initramfs "just because". What does it accomplish? |
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BTW, I'm still running a separate /usr without initramfs, and no related |
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problems; thank you. If I decided to go to an edge-case setup (e.g. |
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Bluetooth keyboard, or ell partitions encrypted) then I could understand |
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being asked to run initramfs. |
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This is reminiscent of the "Mozilla Mentality", where everybody is |
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forced to the lowest common denominator. Yes, a desktop GUI sucks on |
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a tablet/smartphone; I get it. So Firefox was saddled with the |
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smartphone-oriented Atrocious^H^H^H^H^H^H Australis GUI, which sucks |
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on a desktop. That was the last straw that drove me to Pale Moon. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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