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On 19 August 2013, at 10:31, pk wrote: |
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> ... The problem I have, as an engineer, is |
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> that "everybody" says that a separate /usr is broken, that sysvinit is |
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> broken without explaining why. In order to fix a problem you need to |
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> know what is broken... |
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Here's a short, very in-comprehensive list of software we are aware of that |
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currently are not able to provide the full set of functionality when /usr |
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is split off and not pre-mounted at boot: udev-pci-db/udev-usb-db and all |
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rules depending on this (using the PCI/USB database in /usr/share), |
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PulseAudio, NetworkManager, ModemManager, udisks, libatasmart, |
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usb_modeswitch, gnome-color-manager, usbmuxd, ALSA, D-Bus, CUPS, Plymouth, |
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LVM, hplip, multipath, Argyll, VMWare, the locale logic of most programs |
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and a lot of other stuff. [1] |
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I honestly don't have a horse in this race, I don't much care one way or the other. |
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I tend to like things "the old fashioned way", I like things simple, and I like to keep doing things the way I know. |
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I hate the whole initrd thing, but I tend to slap most everything on a single partition, anyway. |
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I could be persuaded either way, were there compelling arguments, but you just undermine your own position by pretending that the reasons for the migration are somehow fictional. |
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Stroller. |
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[1] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken/ |
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