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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: ryao@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:19:33
Message-Id: 20120718101849.075cf9aa@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge by Richard Yao
1 On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:20:13 -0400
2 Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Dear Everyone,
5 >
6 > An often cited benefit of the /usr merge is the ability to put
7 > everything but /etc on NFS and for that reason, we need to force an
8 > initramfs on people happily using /usr without it.
9
10 You forgot about /var. And possibly /srv. But yes, you are probably
11 having separate filesystems so you don't care about people having
12 different layout.
13
14 > With that said, there is a great deal of FUD being spread by the
15 > systemd developers and I see no reason for us to accept it. We would
16 > be breaking users' systems for no gain other than to make the systemd
17 > developers happy. Their refusal to permit udev to be built separately
18 > from systemd demonstrated complete disdain for Gentoo Linux. Why
19 > should we let them dictate how we design our distribution at our
20 > users' expense?
21
22 Didn't you see Lennart's opinions on Gentoo Linux? I don't think their
23 refusal needed to be expressed at all.
24
25 --
26 Best regards,
27 Michał Górny

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