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On 03/14/2012 20:45, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> On 03/14/2012 05:36 PM, David Leverton wrote: |
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>> On 14 March 2012 23:47, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> It's more about what we're _not_ doing that what we're doing. |
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>> Clearly something must have changed in udev 181 to make |
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>> /usr-without-initramfs not work anymore, and someone must have done |
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>> something to make that change happen, unless udev has aquired the |
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>> ability to evolve by itself. |
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> You're pointing your finger at udev, but the udev change is just a |
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> symptom of a more general shift away from supporting the "/ is a |
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> self-contained boot disk that is independent of /usr" use case. |
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I think it's better to say that udev is one of the more important components |
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of your average Linux system that's decided to support a unified root + /usr |
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filesystem. If we were looking at some non-critical, non-boot service that |
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made this decision, then we wouldn't be having this discussion. |
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Joshua Kinard |
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Gentoo/MIPS |
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kumba@g.o |
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4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 |
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"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And |
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our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." |
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--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic |
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