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On 29/09/2013 20:55, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 01:55:49PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>> On 2013-09-28 6:36 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> So this brings us back to the essential technical problem that still |
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>>> needs to be solved on your machines: |
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>>> /usr needs to be available (and not only for BT keyboards) at the |
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>>> earliest possible opportunity - this is a technical constraint. To |
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>>> guarantee that, you need to either merge /usr with /, or use an |
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>>> initramfs to guarantee that /usr is available before anything else |
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>>> happens in userland. |
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>>> It*really* is that simple. If you have a better solution than my last |
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>>> two choices, then I am all ears. |
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>> Ok, and if this is all true, I can accept it. |
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> Alan, this is a very good summary of the issues involved. Everyone on |
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> the list should go and read flameeyes' blog post then this summary. |
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Thanks William. |
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It really was an off-the cuff description done to answer a user's |
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question. I'm glad to hear it communicated what I intended. |
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> Tanstaaf, |
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> I am the OpenRC author/maintainer and a member of base-system. I can |
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> tell you that we are not discussing forcing systemd on everyone in |
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> Gentoo Linux as a default init system. I can also tell you that I am not |
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> aware of the Gentoo systemd team discussing this. Even if they were, a |
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> distro-wide change like this would have to be brought before the |
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> Council. |
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> William |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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