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On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> One of the reasons I left Mandriva was because of the init thingy. If I |
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> wanted one and liked having one, I would have never switched to Gentoo. |
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> The init thingy was not the only reason but it was one of them. The |
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> reason I do not want one is because it adds one more point of failure. |
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> In my past experience, it failed me a lot on Mandriva. I don't want to |
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> go backwards to failure. I want to keep moving forward, which is why I |
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> chose Gentoo, no init thingy needed unless you put / on something like |
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> LVM or encrypt it or something. That is why I put everything but /boot |
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> and / on LVM here, to avoid having to use a init thingy. I have done a |
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> lot to avoid that thing then it turns out, someone is trying to push it |
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> on me anyway. |
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> If I am forced to use a init thingy, the first time it fails and I can't |
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> fix it, I'm moving to something else. If I want a broken init thingy, I |
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> can find something else that suites my needs. I've said it before, I |
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> love Gentoo but I'm not going to reinstall or otherwise spend hours |
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> trying to fix something that I shouldn't need to to begin with and never |
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> needed before. Just saying. ;-) |
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> Dale |
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Fair enough. I don't agree that leaving Gentoo because you chose to |
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put all of /usr on LVM and then chose not to deal with the |
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implications of that over time, but it's your choice and I certainly |
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support choice. |
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And I appreciate you communicating your POV. |
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I'm also interested in Bruce's history about initrd. Sounds like if |
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that worked today I'd just use it to make an initrd and be done with |
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it. Unlike you, I guess, I don't have any political position on these |
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images that get used early on, any more than I do or do not like the |
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format of grub.conf or other things like that. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |