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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Happy 10th birthday (in advance)
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:24:54
Message-Id: 4F773A00.6030805@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Happy 10th birthday (in advance) by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On 03/31/2012 04:49 AM, Duncan wrote:
2 > Ciaran McCreesh posted on Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:52:53 +0100 as excerpted:
3 >
4 >> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:44:03 +0300 Alex Alexander
5 >> <alex.alexander@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >>> @preserved-libs works very well and is awesome. hack or not. IMO it
7 >>> should be in stable already. I've been using it on stable production
8 >>> boxes for years without any issues :)
9 >>
10 >> ...and here we see the problem. You think that "I haven't noticed it
11 >> break" means "it works".
12 >
13 > Funny how familiar that argument looks... aka...
14 >
15 > A separate /usr is already broken, you just don't know it yet.
16
17 For separate /usr, there's a relatively simple solution, which is to
18 mount /usr with an initramfs. For preserve-libs, there is no such a
19 simple solution. Much like separate-/usr-without-initramfs,
20 preserve-libs does not work correctly unless lots of different pieces of
21 software behave cooperatively.
22 --
23 Thanks,
24 Zac