On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 07:59:47PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote > I see three options: > > 1) Start migrating packages along with upstream and have everyone who > has a separate /usr (including me by the way) start using an initramfs > of some kind, either dracut or one that we generate specifically for > gentoo. The reason I suggest the initramfs, is, unfortunately if we > migrate everything, nothing else would work. > > 2) Combine the sbin and bin directories both on the root > filesystem and in /usr by moving things from /sbin to /bin and /usr/sbin > to /usr/bin. > > 3) Try to maintain things the way they are as long as possible.
4) Following pointers from Zac Medico and others, I've managed to get Gentoo running with busybox's mdev, instead of udev. See http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_bc91b392ee0f76376104591cdf7dc5f0.xml Executive summary... look Ma; no udev! In the instructions there, I've set up a revised dev-manager ebuild in an overlay. I've requested the changes to be incorporated into the official ebuild and it appears to have been accepted. See... https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395319 It should be rolled out eventually, and the overlay won't be necessary. I think I've found one item so far that requires udev. My laptop's graphics chip needs a binary blob from radeon-ucode. That binary blob, in turn, requires the presence of /usr/lib/libudev.so.0 which is a symlink to /usr/lib/libudev.so.0.9.3 (which is also required). I can emerge udev move or copy the 2 files over to /root unmerge udev move or copy the 2 files from /root to /usr/lib/ Note that /usr/lib/ is a symlink to /usr/lib64 on my 64-bit gentoo > Please discuss; I want to hear what you think. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
