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That is my impression as well. |
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With that said, the behavior is currently the same between our FreeBSD and Linux variants. This change would break that. |
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On Oct 14, 2013, at 7:59 AM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 14 October 2013 03:32, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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>> All, |
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>> from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a |
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>> symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1]. |
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>> Are there any remaining concerns about doing this? |
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>> If not, it seems like it would be pretty easy to make baselayout create |
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>> this symlink in the stages (I'm willing to do this work), but what about |
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>> on systems that are already installed? Should we send out a news item |
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>> and have everyone convert their /etc/mtab manually or find a way to |
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>> automate that? |
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>> William |
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>> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477498 |
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> I don't see a compelling case being made for why we should make this |
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> change apart from "all the other distros are doing it", and quite a |
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> few reasons why we shouldn't. I'm open to being convinced, so please |
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> tell me why this is good for Gentoo users. |
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> -- |
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> Cheers, |
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> Ben | yngwin |
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> Gentoo developer |
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