Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:08:01
Message-Id: 4E9A0414.7030603@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev by "Wulf C. Krueger"
1 On 10/15/2011 01:57 AM, Wulf C. Krueger wrote:
2 > On 15.10.2011 10:42, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
3 >> in what way will exherbo deal wih this mess? Are there any plans?
4 >
5 > We don't support /usr on a separate partition. People can, of course, do
6 > that and I'll point them to dracut for creating an initramfs.
7 >
8 > Or they can do whatever works for them. People using Exherbo are
9 > expected to be able to deal with such stuff.
10
11 I don't think it's a good idea for Gentoo to encourage users to have
12 /usr on a separate partition. We should probably remove the separate
13 /usr partition from "Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem usage example" in our
14 handbook:
15
16 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap2_pre1
17
18 --
19 Thanks,
20 Zac

Replies