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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:14:51
Message-Id: 4F944A2D.30004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012 by Mike Gilbert
1 On 04/22/2012 10:55 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On 04/22/2012 05:28 AM, Steven J Long wrote:
3 >> Ulrich Mueller wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> | 3. New udev and separate /usr partition (30 minutes)
6 >>> |
7 >>> | See [4]: "Decide on whether a separate /usr is still a supported
8 >>> | configuration. If it is, newer udev can not be stabled and
9 >>> | alternatives should be investigated. If it isn't, a lot of
10 >>> | documentation will have to be updated. (And an alternative should
11 >>> | likely still be provided.)"
12 >>> |
13 >>> | [4]
14 >>> | [<http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-
15 >> project/msg_c96d1b724cd736702820fa5ff1547557.xml>
16 >>>
17 >> From the first reply:
18 >>
19 >> "To clarify, the question is whether or not we support a separate /usr
20 >> _without_ mounting it early via an initramfs."
21 >>
22 >> I hope that settles that particular issue.
23 >>
24 >
25 > Hmm... I see that in Zac's reply, thanks for that.
26 >
27 > Unfortunately, from what I can tell, that clarification was not actually
28 > part of the proposed agenda [5], nor was it directly referenced. So the
29 > subject of the vote still seems open to interpretation.
30
31 Yeah, it almost seems as though the council was being intentionally
32 vague and leaving things open to interpretation. In response, we had
33 William post about the ">= udev-182 tracker" [1], to which Tony seemed
34 to respond positively [2].
35
36 [1]
37 http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_015e73cfccbd72fa956a8bdbc2e9cdc0.xml
38 [2]
39 http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_fb17ccaadc95c7f3f27d0613c13aa04e.xml
40 --
41 Thanks,
42 Zac

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