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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 12:27:43
Message-Id: d8a21dbd-108d-6a1a-bdec-0f877f2aec83@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge by Rich Freeman
1 On 09/04/16 13:53, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
3 >> On 05/04/16 03:19, William Hubbs wrote:
4 >>> Thoughts on any of this?
5 >>
6 >> The whole usr-merge moves the problem of putting stuff in / to putting
7 >> the very same stuff in the initrd when something different from busybox
8 >> (or equivalent) is needed to get the early boot mounting.
9 >>
10 >> Do we have a reliable way to address this now?
11 >>
12 >
13 > Put the very same stuff in the initramfs? Most initramfs creation
14 > scripts should already do this automatically, and with compat symlinks
15 > even those that don't probably will still end up doing it anyway..
16
17 The question is different: do they work reliably?
18
19 usr-merge does not solve any problem in itself (and it is totally
20 backwards, if somebody wants to simplify would do /usr -> /), but makes
21 more evident that you might need lots of the userspace to successfully
22 complete your early boot.
23
24 lu

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Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>