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On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 06:06:35PM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > I'll spend some time I don't have reading the archives, then see. |
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> Well, they are about to move some openrc things to /usr or at least that |
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> was the way it was leaning earlier. The thread is titled "rfc: using |
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> /libexec" if you are interested. If you still don't like the idea of |
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> not being able to have /usr on a separate partition, may want to speak |
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> up soon. Once openrc stuff gets moved there, you won't boot with a |
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> separate /usr anymore. |
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I'm not quite sure what is going to happen with this yet. If we do move |
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openrc to /usr, there will be a way provided to boot with separate /usr. |
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> What is happening to Linux nowadays? :/ |
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In a nutshell, it is because of udev rules running things in /usr. That |
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forces /usr to be available as part of the early boot sequence. |
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This is definitely not a choice that the gentoo disto made; it is coming |
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from several upstreams. |
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William |
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