Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

[Tanstaafl]

On 2013-09-29 2:21 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
>> Where are the links/pointers to the INTERNAL discussions of this decision? I
>> seriously want to know. If gentoo devs are not willing to provide a 'paper
>> trail' for how this decision was arrived at, and let others judge their
>> decisions based on the merits of their arguments, then what does that say
>> about their true motivations/intentions?

> The discussion happened in [1], [2], and [3]. And in similar meetings
> and mailing lists since months ago.
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2946
> [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130924.txt
> [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/88282
>
> All has been made in the open; if you subscribed to gentoo-dev, or to
> genoo-project, you would know about this changes since months ago.

Thanks very much for this...

But it would be pointless for me to subscribe to dev, since 98% of it 
would go straigvht over my head.

>> Again, I don't have a problem necessarily with what is being decided (no
>> separate /usr without an initramfs), my problem is with the implementation -
>> giving us one MONTH before we can expect possible breakage with each and
>> every update.

> How much time do you need? Six months? A year?

Either one would be MUCH better than ONE month...

> systemd, according to its author, will never support *BSD.

Thank god for small miracles...