Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

[Rich Freeman]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:22 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> So here is the question I'll pose. Is it worth all of that extra
> work for us to support separate /usr correctly, or should we just tell
> everyone to start using initramfs or, if they don't want to use
> initramfs and they are just using plain filesystems, the
> busybox[sep-usr] option once all of the tools are stable?

My two cents:

My thoughts - no, it isn't worth all that work.  However, I'm not the
one doing the work, so I'll let those who are judge for themselves
whether it is worth it, and I'm not going to knock volunteer work done
to benefit the Gentoo community.  I hope they succeed.  I also hope
they don't diverge so far that it affects other packages, and I trust
everybody to work together to prevent that.

As far as separate /usr goes and all that, I just see this as one more
option to offer our users alongside mdev, initramfs, an early boot
script, or whatever.  Add it to the news item, and let the users
decide what they want to do.  As far as I'm concerned eudev is just
another option like systemd, and if at some point in the future a
majority of the community/devs are behind changing the defaults, then
we can consider that.  Otherwise, stick it in news items, docs, wiki
pages, or even the handbook as makes sense.  Gentoo is about choice.

Would I rather see some of these devs working on something else, like
my favorite package?  Maybe.  But, if so I'm better off sending them
an email to try to persuade them, or throwing money at them.  What we
ought not to do is knock their work.

Rich