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William Hubbs wrote: |
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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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Actually, I would prefer the /run option and put all the stuff needed |
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for booting in there. Just keep it small. I was planning to separate |
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/usr but I don't want the hassle of a init* system. So, instead of just |
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creating a new partition for /usr, I got to redo the whole drive setup. |
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If I do end up with the init* anyway, I may as well use lvm too. I sure |
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hate to jump into all that at once tho. Murphy's Law just loves the |
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crap out of me. |
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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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I know it is from upstream but it still tastes really bad. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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