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On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 06:15:03PM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote |
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> Every machine I run Linux on is a huge desktop system running behemoth |
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> software (Eclipse, GNOME, Chromium, LibreOffice, etc.). |
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I have Abiword, Gimp, Gnumeric, Firefox, etc, running just fine, thank |
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you, on ICEWM. |
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> He seems to be producing a rather vitriolic, and IMO uncalled-for, |
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> rant against the simple fact that computers do more stuff in 2012 than |
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> they did in 1972 and the udev developers are changing with the times. |
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> This argument falls flat when the author fails to identify what |
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> he or she considers to be critical vs. non-critical software. Is |
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> bluetoothd critical? On my laptop it is not. On my main development |
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> workstation it is not. On my wife's desktop it is because she has |
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> a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse combination. Should bluetoothd be moved |
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> from /usr/sbin to /sbin? Along with libglib and libdbus, which it |
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> depends on? How about usbmuxd, or alsactl? |
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*YOUR WIFE'S LAPTOP* won't boot properly without /usr on /, or an |
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initramfs. OK, put /usr on /, or an initramfs *ON YOUR WIFE'S LAPTOP*. |
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I don't have a problem with that. What gets people really upset is the |
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dog-in-the-manger attitude of "if my complex/corner-case machine won't |
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boot up without /usr on /, or an initramfs, then by golly *NOBODY'S* |
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machine will be allowed to boot up without /usr on /, or an initramfs". |
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My machine does not use bluetooth/other-weird-stuff. udev doesn't need |
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to find bluetooth drivers on /usr on my machine. Why is udev being |
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deliberately broken to not work on *EVERYBODY'S* machine if they don't |
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have /usr on /, or an initramfs? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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