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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:58:48
Message-Id: 4F165F5A.9030508@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by Mike Gilbert
1 Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> Michał Górny wrote:
4 >>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:14:52 +0100
5 >>> Enrico Weigelt<weigelt@×××××.de> wrote:
6 >>>
7 >>>> * Micha?? Górny<mgorny@g.o> schrieb:
8 >>>>
9 >>>>> Does working hard involve compiling even more packages statically?
10 >>>> I guess, he means keeping udev in / ?
11 >>> Because adding 80 KiB of initramfs hurts so much? We should then put
12 >>> more work just to ensure that admin doesn't have to waste 15 minutes to
13 >>> recompile the kernel (if necessary), create an initramfs and add it to
14 >>> bootloader config?
15 >>>
16 >> 80Kbs? You sure about that? I somehow failed to mention this before. I
17 >> noticed it when I saw another reply to this post. Reality check:
18 >>
19 >> root@fireball / # ls -al /boot/initramfs-3.*
20 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5444240 Jan 1 07:24 /boot/initramfs-3.1.5-gentoo.img
21 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5515132 Jan 9 07:57 /boot/initramfs-3.2.0-r1.img
22 >> root@fireball / #
23 >>
24 >> That's using the dracut tool. Somehow, over 50Mbs is not anywhere close to
25 >> 80Kbs, or maybe my calculator is broken.
26 >>
27 > Your calculator is off by a power of 10.
28 >
29 >
30
31 It is. Still, 5Mbs is a lot larger than 80Kbs.
32
33 Thanks for the correction.
34
35 Dale
36
37 :-) :-)
38
39 --
40 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
41
42 Miss the compile output? Hint:
43 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"