Re: [gentoo-project] Support for Seperate /usr

[Dale]

Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:49 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
>> The whole reason I brought this up is, according to some, the council
>> did step in in April of 2012 and mandate that we must support separate
>> /usr without an early boot workaround. If you read the meeting log from
>> that meeting, it seems pretty clear that was chainsaw's intent.
>>
>> Because of that perception, if base-system decides to do something
>> differently, there would definitely be flack over it.
> I understand that completely.  However, I'd only like to step in if
> base-system actually plans to do something and is concerned about
> there being flack over it.  If they don't care to change anything then
> no action is needed.  If they plan to change things but don't care
> about hearing people complain, then no action is needed.  If I took
> action it would only be to tell them they can do whatever they want to
> as long as an initramfs still works (or whatever other workarounds
> people come up with) - I'd just prefer to only step in if somebody
> feels there is a need.
>
> Right now the only argument I'm hearing is that we need to clarify
> what the policy is because the policy is unclear and lack of clear
> policy bothers some people.  I'm not hearing why we care about there
> being a policy in the first place.  If somebody just states "I'm doing
> a lot of extra work because I feel like I have to, so please tell me
> that I don't have to" then I'm fine with stepping in.
>
> Rich
>
>

As a user, I to would like this clarified.  I would like a clear
statement as to whether a separate /usr without init* is supported or
not.  No tap dancing around the issue, just a clear decision or a
statement as to what the prior decision was.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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