Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

[Mark David Dumlao]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> One thing that you seem to be missing here.  Before Gentoo, I used Mandrake.
> It had a init thingy.  It caused me much grief and is one reason I left
> Mandrake.  I also didn't like the upgrade process either but one reason I
> chose Gentoo is no init thingy.  I wanted to be rid of that.  Now, whether
> it is udev or not, here comes that stupid init thingy just because someone
> doesn't want to put files where they should be which is not inside /usr.
>
> So, given my history with the init thingy, if I do use a init thingy and it
> fails for whatever reason, I'll be installing something else.  I done went
> down the road of trying to fix one of those stupid things and I have no plan
> or desire to do so again.  I'm also not going to spend hours reinstalling
> Gentoo either.  If, more than likely when, the init thingy fails, I'll be
> installing something else and I'll most my last sign off message here.  One
> thing about Linux, there are plenty of distros to pick from .  I love Gentoo
> but I like to be able to boot up without dealing with a init thingy that I
> have to fix when it goes belly up.
>
> Dale
>

I don't know why people keep humoring this kind of explanation for
systemd, udev, or /usr FUD, but this is not a rational way to think. It's
the same kind of excuse to say "I'm never going to use any kind of Linux,
even Android, because I tried it 3 or 4 times when it was on floppies,
and I couldn't get it to work".

I'm really sorry about your terrible experience with "init thingies" in the
past, but you've got to face the facts:
1) most distros today, Kubuntu included, bundle an "init thingy"
and it works flawlessly for them.
2) you really, seriously, have to own up to the fact that your init thingy
failing was very likely your fault (because of 1)
3) managing "init thingies" has gotten ridiculously easy over time as
compared to when you manually had to build them

Especially that number 2 part. I mean, let's not forget that character
of Gentoo as a distribution. Or heck, even *nix distributions in general.
*nix distributions give you a lot of tools to arrange your systems the
way you want, i.e. choice, but it is always implicitly under the assumption
that the choice you're making is an *informed* choice.

That's why you're asked to read the manual, or check the readmes,
or check the sample configs, and in this day and age, do a basic search
for working examples, before asking questions. *nix is not, and has
never been about being "polite" to users who don't know what they
are doing, and has always been about being efficient to users who do.

I've been recommended to put it "over the top" bluntly before, so:
1) STOP. FREAKING. BEING. IRRATIONAL.
2) STOP BLAMING INIT THINGIES FOR YOUR MISTAKES. THE DAMNED
THINGS WORK.
3) If you're scared of doing an init thingy *manually*, just read and do
the howto of the simplest init thingy manager in town (dracut? genkernel?).
It surely takes less time and effort than migrating to Kubuntu or whatever.
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