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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> <SNIP> |
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>> The problems with that is these: It worked ALL these years, why should |
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>> it not now? I have / on a traditional partition which is not going to |
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>> resize easily. If I put / on LVM, I need a init thingy. I don't want a |
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>> init thingy |
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> Is that really true? Do you _really_ care whether an 'init thingy' exists |
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> on your system, or is this energy about it really based in something else? |
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> I'm just not understanding the resistance so I'm curious. |
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> I don't like, really don't like, the work that currently goes into making |
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> my 'init thingy' work. All the Gentoo docs about creating hierarchies by |
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> hand and populating them with files and then compressing it. All that |
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> drives me nuts. It should be 100% automatic, and probably is with the |
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> right tools which I haven't found. |
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> But I'm not understanding why you are so against it in totality. It would |
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> be one thing to say that it's too much work. That I understand, but not |
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> wanting one seems a bit overboard to me... |
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> - Mark |
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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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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! |
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