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On 03/14/2012 14:56, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> On 03/14/2012 11:36 AM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 19:58, Matthew Summers |
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>> <quantumsummers@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> Why is an in-kernel initramfs so bad anyway? I am baffled. Its quite |
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>>> nice to have a minimal recovery env in case mounting fails, etc, etc, |
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>>> etc. |
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>> There is nothing bad about initramfs. I think that you are misreading |
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>> the arguments above. |
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> Whatever the arguments may be, the whole discussion boils down to the |
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> fact that the only people who seem to have a "problem" are those that |
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> have a separate /usr partition and simultaneously refuse to use an |
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> initramfs. |
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I refuse to use an initramfs as this point in time because I haven't had to |
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use one in the past 10 years to get my Gentoo installs to boot. Right now, |
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all three active Gentoo installs that I have (x86_64, Vbox, MIPS) boot |
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*fine* with a separate /usr and no initramfs. That, in my opinion, is not |
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"broke", despite statements made to the contrary. |
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It only became "broke" when individuals not involved with Gentoo declared it |
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to be "broke", and then back it up with use-case scenarios that are really |
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only applicable to their distribution of choice. |
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I'm not saying that I'll continue to not use an initramfs, but I would like |
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for some Gentoo-specific reasoning to be offered as to why we have to follow |
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along with this change. Constantly referring to Fedora or Freedesktop |
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websites for their reasoning doesn't matter to me. I don't use Fedora nor |
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do I use X11 (at least the server. I tunnel 2-5 X11 apps over SSH, however). |
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Joshua Kinard |
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Gentoo/MIPS |
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kumba@g.o |
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4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 |
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"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And |
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our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." |
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--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic |