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On 28/09/2013 13:32, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> On 2013-09-27 7:10 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> No really,*why exactly*? |
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> Because that was the RECOMMENDED WAY IN THE GENTOO HANDBOOK when I first |
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> set this system up many years ago. |
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This was something almost all of us recommended way back then. Lord only |
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knows why we recommeded that. Maybe it was small drives (which didn't |
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have), maybe it was different mount options (which I never did and never |
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saw anyone else do either), or maybe it was for thin clients (which I |
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only ever saw in use once - Shuttleworth labs in University of Cape Town). |
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So why did we all (and I included myself) recommend this so much? Dude, |
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I have no idea, but I *think* we were cargo-culting more than any other |
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single factor. |
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> I have no philosophical reason reason to stick with it, only a (maybe |
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> irrational) fear of breaking things if I attempt to merge it back into /. |
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> This, combined with an intense (also maybe irrational) desire to avoid |
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> like the plague using an initramfs, is why this decision to FORCE me |
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> into a position of possibly having to break my system (either by a filed |
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> attempt at merging /usr into /, or a failed attampt at using an initramfs). |
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No-one is forcing you to do anything, the news item did not say that. |
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It says that if you do it, the devs will not support you and you are on |
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your own. It also says that in the dev's opinion, the day when you can |
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no longer support it either is probably not too far away |
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> I too sincerely hope eudev bypasses this issue. |
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This has nothing to do with eudev, not with udev |
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> The main thing about this that pisses me off is the lack of enough |
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> warning... one month? Really? One month to compleyelt rebuild a seerver |
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> that has been running flawlessly for many years, just because someone |
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> doesn't like something that has been done for many years? |
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First, it is not one month, it is much longer. We've all been whinging |
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about the issue for most of this year. Two, why do you think you need to |
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rebuild the entire machine? You don't need to do that just to merge two |
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filesystems. |
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To merge two filesystems, you just merge two filesystems. You don't |
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rebuild anything. You might have some downtime though |
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Please see the news item for what it actually is, not something else. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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