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From: Marc Schiffbauer <mschiff@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:31:08
Message-Id: 20120104183007.GG30764@lisa.schiffbauer.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by "Olivier Crête"
1 * Olivier Crête schrieb am 04.01.12 um 18:40 Uhr:
2 > On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 15:54 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:51:12 +0100
4 > > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
5 > > > /bin/systemctl
6 > > > libdbus-1.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libdbus-1.so.3
7 > >
8 > > Here is a prime example of why "vertical integration" should really be
9 > > called "a horrible mess of tight coupling"...
10 >
11 > You clearly have failed to realize that d-bus is a now the bus for
12 > system messaging and is as much part of the system as syslog or bash.
13 > Probably even more so, for example, in Fedora 17, you'll be able to boot
14 > without syslog or bash, but you need d-bus.
15
16 If this was true, we will soon have problems with linux systems that
17 windows had in 1995.
18
19 IMO a system should *always* be bootable without that "high level"
20 stuff. And by bootable I mean that you can get a root prompt at
21 least.
22
23 -Marc
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